Bread and butter: Coaching and mentoring an incredible team of industry professionals
Background: A quarter century of learning the travel and tourism Industry
To Do List:
Savor and enjoy each and every day on this planet!
Make sure I continually “put back from where I have taken”
Live on the Greek Island of Santorini
Water ski until I am 90 years old
Spend quality time with my father — a true teacher and friend
Bread and butter: Maximizes the return on investment for each partnership
Background: 19 years of accounting and finance experience, including more than 14 years in publishing
To-Do List
Win the masters division of the Berlin Marathon
Become conversational in Spanish within 5 years
Skydive before my 90th birthday
Travel to all seven continents before I’m 50 – twice! And live in a foreign country for a year
Learn to play the guitar – one song – which others can recognize
Bread and butter: Makes sure things are getting done....on time and exceeding client expectations.
Background: Over 15 years experience, wearing many hats in the travel + tourism and direct marketing industry.
Specialty: Client satisfaction.
To Do List:
See Prince perform live
Visit Italy, visit Italy, visit Italy
Learn to fly a plane
Volunteer time and work with senior citizens
Open a really cool bakery
Bread and Butter: Coaching the art of partnership, collaboration and leadership
Background: A bunch of years in B2B media
To-Do List:
Clapton at Royal Albert Hall
Another 25+ years married to Terri
A month in Tuscany
Open a garage dedicated to transportation needs of single mom’s
Chair the W.C. Handy Awards
Bread and Butter: Leading the overall strategy for Weaver’s interactive products and management of our web development team
Background: Passionate about the travel industry, joined Weaver in May 2008 after 8 1/2 years with AOL (including multiple years each with AOL Travel, AOL CityGuide and MapQuest)
To-Do List:
Ring in the same New Year's Eve twice, first in New Zealand then again hours later in Hawaii
Live abroad for a year or two
Heli-board in the Alps
Learn to play the drums
See the Denver Nuggets win the NBA Championship in person (attention Nuggets: I can't do this alone)
Bread and Butter: Strategy and logistics for producing and circulating our guides
Background: 30 years in printing and allied industries, the most recent 18 dedicated to publishing
To-Do List:
Always improve
Speak Spanish fluently
Get a Porsche
Perfect a pastrami recipe
Spend a winter in an Australian summer
Bread and Butter: Studying trends on how our content can increasingly motivate travelers
Background: 9 years in the travel publishing business
To-Do List:
Take my daughter to the town in Italy that inspired her name
Stay two weeks in a cabin in Patagonia
Publish a book of travel photography and stories
Witness Il Palio in Siena
See the Aurora Borealis
