CAP Worldwide Celebrates Winning the 2024 GE Vernova (GEV) Supplier Diversity Collaboration Award
Richmond, London – CAP Worldwide Serviced Apartments (CAP) was honoured to receive the first ever ‘GE Vernova Supplier Diversity Collaboration Award’ celebrated at the GE Vernova HQ in Cambridge, Massachusetts in December 2024.
Bernadette Basterfield, Executive Global Sourcing, Travel/Meetings & Fleet for GE Vernova says ‘Congratulations to the CAP team on this great achievement. We have been working with CAP successfully for 4 years, and they were selected for the award by consistently demonstrating a strong commitment to accomplish and further GEV’s business priorities and objectives, as well as a commitment to supporting fellow diverse suppliers in the GEV supply chain – well done!’
Jo Layton, CAP CEO, and Andrew Hopgood, CAP COO, were personally invited to the GE Vernova HQ in Massachusetts in December, to attend a recognition event to accept this prestigious award, where they had the opportunity to meet with the GE Vernova diversity and global procurement teams, including Reginald Miller, VP & Chief DEI Officer, and Raj Thakker, VP & Chief Procurement Officer.
This collaboration award comes after being awarded the EcoVadis Gold Medal in August 2024. CAP currently sits in the top 1% in the travel industry for sustainability and is the only extended stay agent to achieve this level of award with EcoVadis in this space to date.
Layton says “We are incredibly proud and humbled to receive the GEV award, especially as there were so many high performing, competitive GEV suppliers eligible. This award is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our incredible CAPCrew in ensuring we prioritise accessibility, sustainability and inclusion in all our sourcing and procurement practices and with all operators we work with – all who work with us are assured the same equal opportunity to become a brand partner and receive extended stay demand from our valued clients’.
She adds ‘We believe that being a warm and welcoming team and company drives innovation, and our collaboration with GE Vernova has been instrumental in pushing the boundaries of what we can achieve together for this already successful programme alongside the celebrated global travel team of GE Vernova, because, At CAP, You’re Welcome!’
Ending 2024 on a high, and kicking off 2025 – CAP remains dedicated to continuing its efforts in promoting supplier recognition, strengthening partnerships, and contributing to an inclusive and
sustainable future.
This award recognises the global CAPCrew and Jo Layton’s personal and professional ongoing commitment to create innovative and impactful solutions and programmes for all CAP contracted
clients.
Thank you GE Vernova for this incredible recognition!
About CAP Worldwide Serviced Apartments
A Self-Funded, Certified, Women Owned Company
CAP Worldwide Serviced Apartments was launched to the long stay market in early 2019 to deliver the most creative, agnostic, sustainable, diverse, cost-effective and innovative corporate apartment and accommodation programmes currently available in the sector.
Led by Jo Layton, CEO/co-founder, a respected and passionate leader within the hospitality and extended stay industries for over 30 years, and Andrew Hopgood, COO and co-founder, the CAP Worldwide senior leadership team brings together some of the most highly regarded, experienced, operational and solution orientated leaders from travel, global mobility, relocation and extended stay.
CAP Worldwide represents service and financial excellence, personalised global account management, trusted accommodation programmes and state of the art solutions built to service the current and future needs of the corporate travel, global mobility, procurement teams, project managers and groups.
After an incredible first 5 years, CAP is now celebrating moving into its next phase of growth after implementing CAP3.0 in 2024, where the company re-invented, re-engineered, rejuvenated and evolved all areas of the business to ensure it stays ‘at the tip of the spear’ for is valued clients.
Our why
‘The CAP Worldwide team exists to create consistent, cost effective, secure, diverse, sustainable and continually evolving global programmes so travellers can experience caring service and safe solutions through a blended integration of our people and our technology’.
ESG
CAP Worldwide is proud to be a certified Women Owned global serviced accommodation booking agent and is performing in the top 1% for the travel sector, and top 5% of all companies globally measured for their sustainability through the celebrated assessor ‘EcoVadis’.
