VP of Business Development for Travel Weekly and Travel Age West
I have 30 years in the travel industry focusing on sales and
business development. I have set up and negotiated major contracts with charter
airlines, hotels and land operators around the world. I have also owned
and operated two travel agencies and built them to 10 million in sales before
selling them. Under Northstar, I worked for the Hotel & Travel Index and
held various jobs starting as Sales Director, covering the South East US and
the Caribbean. Hotel & Travel Index was the most successful B&B publication
in world. I am currently Associate Publisher, VP of Business Development
for Travel Weekly & Travel Age West.
I was introduced to travel at a young age when my parents
took me to the Caribbean at 10 years old. Before then, like most kids growing
up, travel mostly consisted of driving trips and vacations close to where we
lived in New England. I grew up on the water and have always been attracted to
the water as long as I can remember. After graduating from college, I worked in
the entertainment industry and traveled frequently, but never in one place long
enough to appreciate what each destination had to offer. But I enjoyed seeing
little snippets of each place. Because of that job, at a young age I had the
pleasure of meeting and working with Travel Agents, Hotels and transportation
companies and I always told them what a cool job they had getting to meet so
many people on vacation. I knew how lucky I was to combine a career and
travel and with that knowledge, I decided I was going to be involved in this
industry for the rest of my life. Enter Northstar Travel Group - it
checked all the boxes and combined with my past history, was the perfect match
and I’ve never looked back. I’ve been with Northstar for over 28 and will
retire at some point from Northstar being grateful working in such a wonderful
industry with amazing people.
