Ferry Unardi

Ferry Unardi (born January 16, 1988) is an Indonesian software engineer and business executive known as the founding CEO of Traveloka, an online travel agency and booking website. After working at Microsoft as a software engineer, By 2022, the company was the largest online travel agency in Southeast Asia. Unardi is a recipient of the Satyalancana Wira Karya Award from the President of Indonesia. he developed an interest in information technology in high school, he moved to the United States to attend Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. After taking part in a number of coding competitions, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in both computer science and mathematics While at Microsoft, he began considering a career in business.

Career 2011 to 2016 While studying in Boston and traveling to visit family in Indonesia, Unardi frequently encountered difficulties booking flights. Frustrated, he came upon the idea of creating an Indonesian travel website that would simplify the comparison of flight details. the three decided to leave their jobs and studies to form a startup company in Indonesia together. to serve as founding chairman and CEO, they co-founded Traveloka in early 2012 The Traveloka website went public in October 2012, In 2013, Traveloka began letting users purchase flights as well as search for them As Traveloka CEO, Unardi spoke at the 2014 Startup Asia Jakarta event. By 2016, Unardi had traveled with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on a number of international visits to "promote Indonesia's startup scene."

2017 to 2023 With Unardi as CEO, Traveloka had expanded by 2017, opening offices in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. Later in 2017, Unardi was one of five startup founders included in the inaugural Next Indonesia Unicorn International Summit (NextICorn), where the Indonesian Ministry of Communication again introduced various entrepreneurs to investors in Silicon Valley. Unardi spoke at the subsequent NextICorn in Nusa Dua, Bali in 2018, and also at the 2018 launch of EV Growth at the Djakarta Theater.

He spoke on Bloomberg Daybreak at Bloomberg's New Economy Forum in Beijing in 2019. During the early months of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Traveloka had surges in refund and rescheduling requests, and Traveloka began booking COVID-19 vaccination appointments. In 2021, Tatler Asia included him on a list of Asia's Most Influential. Under Unardi, by 2022, Traveloka had expanded beyond travel bookings to also sell lifestyle products and services such as attraction tickets, activities, transportation rentals, restaurant vouchers, credit

Personal life In 2012, Unardi moved from where he was studying in the United States to Jakarta, Indonesia.