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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, MA United States

Cultivara is a publicly traded shell on the Nasdaq exchange (SPAC) that is involved with sustainability, the cannabis market, specifically the hemp and the many bi-products of the plant and buying companies involved in supporting the growth of hemp, from genomics to bio-plastics and textiles.

Greater Boston Area

Founded in 1983, Vantage Deluxe World Travel is a $500 million, state-of-the-art direct marketer of travel experiences and has helped more than 1 million people travel the world. With worldwide offices in Boston, Budapest, China, Croatia, South Africa, and South America, Vantage develops and delivers memorable travel journeys on seven continents.

Boston, MA

AHireCloud is and on-demand, enterprise architected application leveraging best-in-class Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructure created to comprehensively support the restaurant industry and then further expand to include healthcare and hospitality verticals.

Apple-focused technology consulting and implementation services. iPad/iOS application development, large-scale deployments, company PC to Mac migrations.

Experiential Tourism in New York City, using transportation, actors, and technology to create a very unique and indigenous experience. Scaling to cities around the United States and the world.

Greater Boston Area

• Global transportation services company with 1,500 employees and $180M in revenue. Operating company of Devonshire Investors, a Fidelity Investments company.
• Increased EBITDA more than 400% and grew revenues from $109M to $180M over three years.
• Elevated the brand from airport transfer service to premium global transportation company by improving quality of hires, upgrading fleet, introducing chauffeur training programs, completely rebuilding the sales.
• Reduced “sold out” percentage from 8% to 1.5%, adding $10M in revenue, by increasing number and quality of the BostonCoach Affiliate Network fulfillment partners globally.
• Initiated several Six Sigma projects in the areas of accounting, technology, events, and on-time airport transportation performance. On-time performance increased from 77% to 99%.
• Initiated and led complete technology re-engineering of the company, which dramatically reduced costs through increased efficiencies.

• International incentive, event management and group travel company with 100 employees and $95M in revenue. Wholly owned subsidiary of Navigant International, a $5B publically held company traded on the NYSE.
• Created and launched NPG brand as high-end incentive, meeting and events management firm.
• Acquired and successfully integrated more than 12 companies by implementing a scalable business model, increasing the quality of service and personnel, and re-training on a standard platform.
• Maintained and grew the account base while re-branding and educating acquired customers to new processes and people.
• Launched dedicated marketing team to focus exclusively on NPG group business while also working collaboratively with parent company on relevant co-branded marketing efforts.
• Successfully implemented Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiative during the evolving and comparatively onerous early stages of SOX regulation.

• Incentive, meeting and event management company with 40 employees and $40M in revenue.
• Merged Destination Management, Inc. and Incentive Strategies to establish new identity in the marketplace that provided single source incentive, meeting, and special event solutions to Fortune 500 corporations.
• Increased profitability by leveraging enhanced buying power with suppliers, realizing operational efficiencies, and focusing specifically on high-end corporate customers with multi-faceted needs.

• Incentive marketing company with 20 employees and $10M in revenue.
• Provided strategic analysis, motivational communications, administration and on-site fulfillment of group travel awards. Developed merchandise and recognition awards for the sales teams, customers, and employees of.
• Delivered the single largest incentive travel program to a Caribbean island for a worldwide direct sales company.

• Convention, meeting and event planning company for Boston area with 15 employees and $3M in revenue.
• Provided fulfillment of transportation services, tours, site selection, hotels, special events, and premiums for large associations and corporations within the Boston area.