Bill Tech, CEO of Omaha, Neb.-based Travel and Transport, will retire at the end of 2014.<br /><br />Tech added the title of company chairman on Jan. 1, and he will continue as chairman after he retires as CEO.<br /><br />Tech joined Travel and Transport in 1987 as a regional vice president based in Chicago. He moved to Omaha in 1992 as vice president of finance. In 1997, he was named executive vice president, and in 1998 he was promoted to president and CEO.<br /><br />Kevin O’Malley, who was named president of Travel and Transport on Jan. 1, will also assume CEO duties after Tech retires.<br /><br />O’Malley joined Travel and Transport in 1994 as assistant controller. He was named controller in 1997, vice president in 1998, senior vice president and CFO in 2000 and executive vice president in 2003.<br /><br />In another personnel move at the start of the year, Tim Fleming was named chief operating officer.<br /><br />Fleming joined Travel and Transport in 1982 as a travel counselor and managed a number of branch locations prior to being promoted to vice president of business travel management services in 1995.<br /><br />He was promoted to vice president of operations and client services in 1998; senior vice president of sales, operations and client services in 1998; and executive vice president in 2003.