Richard Kunz,
Principal Consultant, Travel & Hospitality
T4G Ltd.

Richard Kunz leads T4G's travel and hospitality consulting practice and provides management consulting for corporate strategies, multi-channel distribution, eCommerce strategies & solutions, reservation systems and marketing programs.

Prior to joining T4G Mr. Kunz was the Vice President of Advance Sales Technology at Intrawest, one of the world's biggest resort operators, where he was responsible for the development and support of the company's reservation systems, and eCommerce platform.

Mr. Kunz has twenty five years of experience as a consultant and senior executive for leading travel and hospitality firms around the world in areas such as IT, marketing, sales, strategic planning and supply chain optimization. His skills span most travel industry verticals including retail and wholesale travel, hospitality firms, cruise lines, airlines, technology providers and global distribution systems.

Mr. Kunz's accomplishments include the development of various IT solutions involving central reservation systems (CRSs), global distribution systems (GDSs), eCommerce solutions, as well as tour, hotel and fares distribution systems. On the business side his background includes the authorship and implementation of an array of corporate strategies and marketing programs.

Having been involved with travel eCommerce for over ten years Mr. Kunz was a pioneer in dynamic packaging and most recently he is focused on defining strategies for clients around the latest trends such as Web 2.0, multi-channel supply chain optimization, experiential travel solutions and catalogue-driven shopping.

Mr. Kunz has been a guest lecturer in the past at Humber College, Toronto, Canada, and with Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He holds a MA-Marketing from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

Paolo Boni
President & CEO
VFM Interactive

Based in Toronto, VFM Interactive is the leading provider of rich media content production and distribution solutions to the hotel and travel industry, serving over 30,000 client hotels and 25,000 travel websites and major travel intermediaries worldwide. Paolo is responsible for setting the Company's vision and strategic direction, as well as evangelizing VFM's unique value proposition to the world. Paolo is a frequent public speaker and panelist at major travel conferences on subjects relating to online travel marketing and rich media in travel.

Patricia Brusha
E-Analyst & Co-Founder
A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing

min Patricia Brusha is the co-chair and co-founder of Online Revealed Canada - the Canadian Tourism e-Marketing Conference produced in association with Yahoo! Canada and www.acoupleofchicks.com - an Internet Marketing Company focused on travel and tourism. She has spent 26 years working in the Hospitality Industry in the United States and Canada in the fields of Sales, Hotel Marketing, Internet Distribution and Revenue Management. Together, the "Chicks" have published over 30 articles, launched www.chicksaway.com - a new social media portal for women who travel.

The Chicks have worked with such notable brands as Marriott International and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, to develop innovative online marketing strategies, and their popular e-marketing workshops have also lead to the upcoming book focused on the "Chicks" non-intimidating approach to marketing online to be launched Spring 2008. Patricia is a Google Certified Professional and a Yahoo Search Ambassador. She has also been on numerous industry panels including; the Distribution Summit in Chicago www.eyefortravel.com , and the Search Engine Strategy Conference in Toronto, www.searchenginewatch.com., and is a regular speaker at leading industry events such as the Travel Alberta Annual Conference, and the Hotel Conference Association of Canada.

Mark Charlinski
Vice President, Sales and Business Development

Mark Charlinski joined VFM in September 2005 and as VP of Sales and Business Development is responsible for securing VFM.s business partnerships, helping to significantly grow VFM.s distribution network and content views. Mark brings a broad spectrum of experience to VFM with many years in areas such as sales, business development, venture capital, product development, content and channel management, and financial planning. Prior to joining VFM, Mark held numerous positions within Bell Canada over a 12 year period. Most recently, Mark was a Senior Marketing Consultant for Bell Canada and developed payment solutions that allowed Bell to sell outside of the traditional telecom business. Prior to that, Mark was part of the venture capital arm of Bell Mobility where he was responsible for evaluating company business plans and making investments in companies that complemented Bell Mobility.s business strategy. During his time with Bell, Mark was also responsible for launching the Blackberry service for Bell Mobility.

Don Dees
Founder
DóndeEs.com

Don Dees is one of the founders of DóndeEs.com, the leading local search and Web 2.0 company in Puerto Rico. While working some 15+ years within information technology (IT), Don held many positions including analyst, consultant, and Director of Software Development, mostly within the telecommunications industry. After leaving corporate IT in 2002, Don has been focusing on open source software, Web2.0, and being an entrepreneur. During that time Don has written for O'Reilly Network, Linux Journal, and TUX Magazine. In addition he has presented at major software and technology conferences such as, O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Linux World, and Software Development Conference. A self-acknowledged geek (and proud of it) Don has both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science.

Marvin Dejean
Senior Vice President Media Strategies
POWERi Technologies

Marvin Dejean is the Senior Vice President of Media Strategies at POWERi Technologies , a fully interactive marketing and digital public relations firm in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He leads the interactive and digital public relations initiatives at the company. He also oversees the company's expansion throughout the Caribbean by providing interactive strategies for the Travel & Tourism industry throughout the region.

Dejean provides strategic direction to various multi-national companies seeking to tap into the ever growing need for digital and interactive campaigns. He provides strategic intelligence to companies such as TEMPO, Broward Health and the Caribbean Tourism Organization to help them develop online strategies using social media, digital public relations and Online Reputation Management.

Prior to working at POWERi, he served as the VP of Public Relations for Innovative Communications Corporation where he handled all marketing strategies for the company's Caribbean Telecommunications assets. He currently serves as the president-elect of the Gulfstream Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

Mr. Dejean is the host of his own television commentary show entitled "Caribbean Pulse" on Island TV in Miami where he has the opportunity to interview prominent individuals such as Dr. Donna Shalala, the president of The University of Miami and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez on issues affecting the Caribbean communities in South Florida.

Malcolm Fraser
President and Managing Partner
ISL Inc.

As the President and Managing Partner of ISL, Malcolm is a leading entrepreneur with 12 years of Internet industry experience. Focusing on creative technology solutions that leverage the Internet to solve complex business and marketing problems has earned him local and national recognition.

Malcolm is responsible for driving Internet initiatives that generate significant business results for clients such as NS Tourism - novascotia.com, NS Heritage, Jacques Whitford, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Steele Auto Group and Nova Scotia Business Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mount Allison University and has long be involved in the development o the information technology industry provincially and nationally. He is currently the Chairman of the Information Technology Alliance of Nova Scotia (ITANS), a member of the Premier's Council on Innovation, past chair of the Canadian Information Communications and Technology Federation, member of the Atlantic Canada Internet Marketing Association, and has been recognized as one of Atlantic Canada's top 50 CEOs.

Mandy Gresh
Country Manager
Travelzoo

Mandy Gresh has served as Country Manager for online travel deal publisher, Travelzoo since leading the company's expansion into Canada in March 2006.

Gresh has been responsible for attaining over 600,000 active Canadian leisure travellers and has helped over 100 Canadian travel companies leverage Travelzoo.ca and the Travelzoo Top 20.

From 2004 to 2006 Gresh served as a producer at Travelzoo's headquarters in New York. From 2002 - 2004, Gresh worked in media relations for Fairmont Hotels & Resorts in New York. Between 2001 and 2002, Gresh was an account executive at Ruder Finn Public Relations in New York and was responsible for hotel brands such as Four Seasons, The Roosevelt New York and Rome Caveleri Hilton in Italy.

Gresh holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from the State University of New York College at Oswego.

Hari Nair
Vice President, Lodging
Expedia Inc.

Hari Nair is the Vice President of Lodging at Expedia, Inc., which includes Expedia and Hotels.com, the two largest online sellers of hotel rooms in the world. Hari oversees various aspects of Expedia and Hotels.com's hotel supplier relations efforts and heads the lodging division for Canada, Eastern US, Caribbean and Mexico. In 2003, Hari was awarded the "Market Manager of the Year" award by Expedia, Inc. for having initiated best practices in the field of Internet distribution strategies in the company's operations.

Prior to joining Expedia, Inc., Hari was the Corporate Training Manager at Oberoi Hotels, a leading luxury hotel chain which owns and manages thirty hotels and five luxury cruisers across six countries under the 'Oberoi' & 'Trident' brands. Hari also has several years of experience in Food & Beverage operations. Prior to transitioning into training, Hari was the Food & Beverage Manager at the Oberoi's flagship hotel, The Oberoi Towers in Mumbai, a 1000 room hotel with over 14 food & beverage outlets.

Hari holds a Masters Degree from The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University.

Edward Perry
Senior Director of E-Commerce
WORLDHOTELS

With over 20 years of industry exposure, Edward Perry has been with WORLDHOTELS for over eight years. During his tenure at WORLDHOTELS, he began in the corporate sales division, managing sales for the Northeastern USA. His most current appointment is as Senior Director of E-Commerce. In this position, Edward manages strategic alliances in the Americas and Asia between online booking and technology partners and WORLDHOTELS' portfolio of close to 500 properties worldwide.

Prior to his work at WORLDHOTELS, Edward took on a variety of industry positions in sales and marketing at various hotel levels, including in the area of corporate housing. His most recent position prior to WORLDHOTELS was the role as travel manager for Macy's West in San Francisco where he oversaw an air budget of ten million as well as the company's corporate credit card, hotel, car and calling card programs. He was instrumental in the roll-out of Macy's West's first online travel booking engine.

Edward has a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and German from Schiller International University in Heidelberg, Germany and a MBA in Global Business Management from the University of Phoenix. He currently sits on the Board of HEDNA and is a Destination Educational Leader for Online Revealed and Co-Chair of Online Revealed Caribbean.

Carson Pierce
Project Manager
Idea Market

Since beginning his professional website development career seven years ago, Carson has been involved in nearly every facet of the industry; from marketing to design to coding. By 2004, he realized that he just wasn't that good of a designer and teamed up with someone who was to form Idea Market Design. Within a few years, a second company - Point B Marketing - was created to focus in on the needs of the marketing and design needs of the tourism industry.

While Carson still ends up doing a bit of everything, his day-to-day role now is Project Manager. His breadth of experience helps him understand each stage of the website development process... and get them done.

Carson has a BComm in Marketing, parents two small children and has won his fantasy hockey league two years in a row.

Edward Radonic
Managing Partner, Director of Marketing
RadonicRodgers design+marketing

Edward Radonic is the Managing Partner of RadonicRodgers Communications Inc. Edward, has led RadonicRodgers into the Travel Marketing Specialty, and was marketing leader for marketing programs and campaigns for various travel sectors such as Destinations, Attractions, Hotels & Resorts, Tour Operators, Travel Agents and Airlines. Some of these organizations include; OMCA, WestJet Vacations, Globus Family of Brands, Tourisim Ireland, Tourisim Spain, Renaissance & Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Ensemble Travel and Thomas Cook Travel just to name a few. Edward is also a member of the SKÅL International Club of Toronto for Travel Professionals. Edward and RadonicRodgers' team collaborated with the WestJet team, and together launched the first WestJet Vacations Travel brochure.

Edward's career in the marketing industry started 20 years ago with a firm that he owned and subsequently sold prior to founding RadonicRodgers. Presently, at the age of 38 he has earned accolades attributed to his entrepreneurship, founded 6 firms, navigated multiple mergers, acquisitions and sales of companies. He continues to be instrumental in RadonicRodgers achieving Canada's Top Marketing Firm status, which has won numerous marketing and creative awards and is one of Canada's fastest growing companies two years in a row (5 year growth at 961%).

Edward lends his keen entrepreneurial and marketing sense to help RadonicRodgers' clients succeed. When clients come to us to market their product, service or destination, our goal is to achieve the highest possible Return on Investment (ROI) for our clients. We are continually developing unique and effective strategic marketing programs and then tweaking them, while monitoring and improving our own results year to year that result in increasingly higher and measurable ROI. Edward Radonic looks forward to addressing marketing challenges by developing new strategies to combat them.

Gil Schmidt

A business consultant and biz-tech writer for over 20 years, Gil C. Schmidt has helped launched over 135 successful companies in Puerto Rico, Central America, the U.S. and Europe. Born in Puerto Rico, he grew up an Air Force brat living in 5 States before the age of 9. Precocious, he entered high school at 13, college at 15 and puberty at perhaps 17. Author of over 840 articles and more than 30 published stories in English and Spanish, Mr. Schmidt began blogging in 2005 and developed his signature blog Gil The Jenius over a cup of very bitter coffee. The results are still evident.

Cal Simmons
Founder - Five Star Alliance
Founder / CEO - Adcision Luxury Media

James Shan
Strategic Global Markets Advisor
POWERi Technologies

Before James Shan came to the USA, he worked for the China Youth Travel Services, the second largest travel company in China, as the Assistant General Manager for CYTS' overseas travel department. During his seven years of service with CYTS, James created the brand "Global Island Specialist" and successfully introduced high-end tropical destinations such as the Maldives and Mauritius into the Chinese Market. He also worked with the Philippines and Malaysian Tourism Bureaus to improve their market awareness significantly in the Chinese Market.

In 2004, James lectured on Chinese Market Entry Strategies to delegates from 30 countries at the World Seminar of PATA, as a guest speaker from North China. In addition to his experience in China, he also interned with Regent Seven Seas in Fort Lauderdale on luxury brand strategy and online marketing in 2006, while pursuing his MBA from the University of Michigan. We believe his rich experience in promoting foreign destinations in the Chinese market and his understanding of the US high-end travel businesses will add value to the business of the audience.

Melinda E. Van Patter
Client Relations Manager
Marketwire

Melinda is a Client Relations Manager for Marketwire, a global newswire organization, helping clients to get their news in front of stakeholders, investors, the financial community, the media and online communities. In this sales position, Melinda strives to educate her clients on how to effectively target their messages, while both meeting regulatory compliance and getting the most attention.

She previously worked at The Canadian Press, Canada's National News Agency, advising public relations professionals on how to best get media pickup. Melinda is an experienced public speaker, with many years of both professional and theatrical performances. She is a graduate of Simon Fraser University in Mass Communications, and recently trained by Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States, to present "An Inconvenient Truth" through the Climate Project Canada.

Melinda is currently on the Board of Directors of The Media Foundation, a not for profit association to assist not for profits and a member of the International Association of Business Communicators.

Melinda lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and enjoys weekends at her cottage, 125 acres of pristine wetlands and forest, with her husband and 3 sons. She loves to travel and a day is not complete unless she can solve a problem or bring a smile to someone's face.

Alicia Whalen
Co-Founder
A Couple of Chicks e-Marketing

Alicia Whalen is the co-founder of www.acoupleofchicks.com and www.onlinerevealed.com - recognized as the prominent hospitality and travel Internet marketing strategy consultancy firm in Canada and beyond. She has also developed a successful online tourism marketing Blog; www.ideahatching.com and continues to educate about search engine optimization and Online Marketing best practices with the "Chicks" popular e-Marketing workshops and speaking engagements, which include; Quebec Tourism Annual Conference, the Student Youth and Travel Association Conference, and the Travel Media Association of Canada Conference. Alicia has worked to develop online marketing strategies for such notable companies and Marriott International, Nova Scotia Tourism, Niagara Falls Tourism and Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. Together, the "Chicks" have published over 30 articles on search marketing best practices and they are currently working on their first Online Marketing Guide to be published this Fall 2008.

Speaking & Workshop Requirements

What differentiates Online Revealed from other conferences is the unique practical applications provided in our workshops. Positioned as the "how to" conference for online travel marketing, we appreciate your application in teaching these valuable workshops.

Our mandate is to provide quality education for the Caribbean Travel Professional in a non-intimidating environment.

All proposals are due by August 25, 2008

• Please provide a brief outline or agenda of your workshop or presentation topics
• Please indicate whether you are interested in Sponsorship Opportunities
• Please provide a brief Bio
• Please provide a list of recent speaking engagements

All speakers are responsible for their own transportation and expenses. Complimentary registration for the event will be given for anyone confirmed as a speaker, panellist or workshop leader.

We highly encourage sponsors of the event to apply to enhance your conference exposure. If you meet the above guidelines, please send your speaking request to:
Patricia Brusha
Co-Founder & Co-Chair
pbrusha@acoupleofchicks.com