He is a 25 year veteran of the hotel and travel industry with specific experience in technology marketing, sales, product management and media areas. Much of this time has been spent in senior executive roles directing global scale projects, developing product and go-to-market strategies.

Beginning his career as a hotelier with Southern Suns Group, Gideon then joined Utell International and Reed Travel Group, in sales, product management and marketing roles before moving to Pegasus Solutions.

At Pegasus, he held a variety of roles from head of business development internationally, SVP of International Operations and after moving to the USA, SVP Global Sales, Account Management and Service Delivery. In this role, Gideon was responsible for all customer side processes and functions from sales through implementation and life cycle management.

Following a period with TIG Global as SVP Sales and Marketing, particularly focused on new generation eCommerce solutions and web services, Gideon joined Questex Media Group as Executive VP of the Travel Hospitality Group. In this role, he was responsible for transitioning the business from traditional mixed media to a majority digital media service.

A graduate of University of Johannesburg - Hotel School, Gideon is also a visiting fellow at the University of Surrey (UK).

David was the Senior VP of Sales & Marketing at BirchStreet Systems, a leading provider of hospitality industry e-procurement and back office automation solutions that covers procedures from procurement through payment, also known as "Procure-to-Pay" [P2P] technology. Some of their clients include Hilton Hotels' worldwide and Hilton Supply Management, Hyatt, Marriott, Omni, Dolce, Fairmont and many of the largest groups and chains around the world including Avendra, the world's largest Group Purchasing Organization.

Prior to BirchStreet, Chestler was in senior management at Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc., one of the world's largest hotel technology providers. His roles there included Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Development, SVP Sales and Account Management, VP of the Solution Center and VP Global Sales of Distribution. As the leading force in forging Pegasus' relationships with corporate, non-profit and government partners in emerging markets, Chestler played a critical role in supporting Pegasus' expansion globally. He led the company's business development initiatives and worked across the organization to ensure partner and alliance requests were aligned to corporate strategy and priority. His areas of accountability were: sales, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, SBU alliances and affinity programs.

Before Pegasus, David was the general manager of Visual Data Travel Group, a division of Visual Data Corporation (now known as On Stream Media) (NASDAQ: ONSM). Prior to that David served for nine years with Utell International, the world's largest hotel reservation, sales and marketing company, which is now a service of Pegasus Solutions. Chestler was vice president of sales and development for Utell, overseeing $400 million in annual revenue and a portfolio of 1,200 hotels.

David's marketing experience also includes consultative work for Evergreen Enterprises and Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company. Before that, he spent five years gaining advertising and sales and marketing management expertise at a variety of companies including the MCS Group, Dun and Bradstreet Corp., Burger King Corp. and Ad Shop/Smith Winston Advertising.

Chestler holds a bachelor's of science degree from Florida International University. He also attended American University in Washington, D.C. Based in Dallas, Texas; Chestler is married and has two daughters.

In the late 1990s, Mike uncovered a niche in the marketplace - last minute travel. The Internet was the ideal forum to sell this near-term inventory, so he founded 11thHour.com, which now offers affordable vacation packages and cruises to destinations worldwide.

After just a few short years in operation, OneTravel, Inc., a prominent player in the online travel space, acquired the web site in April 2001. 11thHour.com maintained its unique branding, yet became integrated as the vacation and cruise arm of its parent company.

As a result of the merger, Mike took a strategic position as Senior Vice President of Supplier Relations with OneTravel, initiating and maintaining relationships with many of the key industry suppliers. In addition, under Mike's stewardship, the company created one of the first API-based online cruise booking engines.

In late 2004, Mike once again heard opportunity knocking, but this time in the form of a consultancy group to take on the increasing demand for a variety of specialized travel services. Travel Team Consulting was born to meet the needs of companies of all sizes, whether small businesses or large, multimillion dollar corporations.

Mike realized companies in all spectrums of the travel industry - including online intermediaries, brick-and-mortar agencies, hotels and resorts, airlines, and more - often require expertise on-demand. Travel Team Consulting was formed to answer that call and provide know-how in all facets of the industry.

Recognizing the dangers of creating too much of a dependency on these channels, Mr. Kamlani became very involved in the industry and became a member of the HSMAI Internet Marketing Advisory Board, where the heads of e-commerce from other major hotel chains came together to discuss the overwhelming changes that the industry was facing and how to deal with those changes. As many other hotel chains did, Sol Melia began to focus on growing its own direct channel, solmelia.com. Faced with the challenge of an unknown brand in the Americas, Mr. Kamlani studied how to use online marketing techniques to grow direct revenues and reduce the dependency on OTAs. He was eventually promoted to Global Vice President of E-Commerce & Distribution where he was responsible for approximately $250 Million in revenue.

In January of 2010, Ashwin Kamlani founded Hotel Internet Help Inc., a company dedicated to helping independent hotels achieve the same goals he was charged with at Sol Melia. Together with his technology partners, he developed a proprietary booking engine and extremely user friendly extranet. This technology combined with his online marketing expertise attracted an impressive portfolio of independent hotels, particularly in the Caribbean. Mr. Kamlani quickly realized that the hotels in the Caribbean were getting little or no online business from their DMOs.

Many of the DMOs were frustrated because they really wanted to do a lot more to use the internet to drive more tourism to their destination, but the technology didn't exist that would allow them to do so, and even if it did, they didn't have the people or the knowledge to take full advantage of it. So Ashwin Kamlani began to develop Regatta Travel Solutions ... A system that would allow the DMOs to get all of the suppliers in their destination together to develop their own OTA. Regatta works with CVBs, Hotel Associations and Tourism Boards. On October 1st, 2011, Regatta Travel Solutions became and Alliance Partner of DMAI. It was a logical step in the evolution of the Company.