Michael McNabb – Chairman/CEO
Michael McNabb has a demonstrated record of achievement as an entrepreneur, senior executive in a corporate environment and as a senior partner in a management-consulting firm. His experience includes managing the turnaround of TVSN, the Australian home shopping channel; the restructuring of the Asian operations of Bacardi Martini, the international premium spirits company; and the development of China’s leading management-consulting resource. In addition to his management experience, Michael has been actively involved in a number of venture and early stage investments as a founder or director. A graduate of Stanford University, he speaks Mandarin Chinese and Tagalog.

John Pasmore - President
John Pasmore has been creating content across platforms and managing media enterprises for more than a decade. Before joining Voyage, John served as the Managing Director of The Run Group, an experiential marketing agency based in New York, creating custom on and off-line activations for an array of marketing objectives serving clients such as Anheuser Busch, Scion and Cingular/AT&T. From 1995 to 2004, John partnered with Russell Simmons of Def Jam Records to create Oneworld Media Inc. and served as President of the Company. The company published Oneworld magazine, which garnered awards for its art direction and groundbreaking content, and secured a lucrative co-production partnership with Hearst Magazines.

John created and served as Executive in Charge of Production for Russell Simmons Oneworld Music Beat, a television series that was co-produced with Warner Brothers Television, and serves as Executive Producer of nContrast, a weekly entertainment program that currently airs in more than 15 million homes. John, 44, is married with one child. He studied business administration at the State University of New York and attended Columbia University’s School of General Studies with a focus in English.

Battista Remati – Network Creative Director/Executive Producer
Battista Remati has more than 20 years of international experience as a creative director, executive producer and image-maker in film, television, advertising and theater. Specializing in cinematography and art direction, Battista was the creative force on more than 15 feature films, including the critically acclaimed Palisades, which won the Palm d’Or at Cannes in 1988. In the 1990s he was Creative Director/Executive Producer for myriad network television programs across Australia, including Ground Zero, Australia’s first interactive youth music program. In 1998 he became Creative Director of TVSN, Australia’s premier shopping network, where he was instrumental in overhauling production and assisting with a successful IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange. He then became TVSN’s General Manager of Marketing and E-commerce, developing the online shopping portal.

In 2000 Battista moved to Boston as Marketing Vice President for Echolab. Battista has been the Creative Director/Executive Producer of Voyage since its inception in 2002. Battista is married with three children. He holds a bachelor’s degree in design from Sydney College of the Arts; an honors degree in marketing from Sydney University and and a Masters degree theatre/film direction from Melbourne University .

Tedd Evers – Chief Revenue Officer
Tedd Evers is responsible for revenue strategy, retail sales, endemic (travel) media sales and the monetization of Voyage’s unique video programming. He has more than 20 years of successful sales and marketing experience, 10 of them in online travel. Most recently he led the global hotel business at Barcelona-based eDreams.com, a leading European online travel site. Before that Tedd managed the global hotel chain partnerships at Travelocity.com, where he orchestrated the launch the Caribbean and European hotel product, as well as media sales and merchandising for those regions.

He was a member of the launch team of last-minute travel start-up Site59.com, which was acquired by Travelocity in 2002. After graduating with honors from Harvard, Tedd played professional basketball in Germany and has been traveling ever since, picking up bits of German, Swahili, Italian, Indonesian and mostly Spanish along the way. His passion for travel has taken him to more than 60 countries on six continents.

Robert W. Harris – Chief Financial Officer
Robert Harris has a broad business background with more than 25 years of experience in finance, operations, content, venture fund-raising, legal, accounting and marketing. He was Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for Lime, a multimedia company covering healthier, greener, and more balanced lifestyles. Lime had a content and community Web site, cable network, VOD programming online and on television and a radio channel on Sirius satellite radio. Lime was sold to Gaiam in 2007. He was Vice President of Finance and Administration for About.com from its inception and took the company through a successful initial public offering. As a consultant he launched a pay television channel in Turkey. He worked at Home Box Office, where, among other new business development efforts he supervised the day-to-day launch of HBO’s Latin American HBO Ole service and created the business plans for HBO Hungary. He previously worked for Paramount Pictures, where he did corporate financial planning, special projects and internal auditing. He also worked for Paramount’s parent company, Gulf + Western, and as a CPA.

Libbie Rice – Vice President of Marketing
Libbie is responsible for marketing at Voyage. Before joining Voyage, Libbie developed and ran the loyalty marketing program for Eos Airlines, a start-up all-business-class airline. Before Eos, she was Vice President of Customer Relationship Management Planning and Development at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and was responsible for creating a customized guest experience through unique offers and on-property events. Libbie was also Director of Revenue Management Systems during her tenure at Starwood. Her travel career began in Pricing and Revenue Management at both American Airlines and Delta Air Lines. At Delta Libbie was General Manager of Revenue Management, where she was responsible for setting the pricing strategy and seat optimization for Delta’s transatlantic markets. Libbie holds a master’s degree from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley. Libbie has lived in Belgium, Australia and Hong Kong, and now currently resides in New York City with her husband and two children.

Henry J. Watkins – Vice President of Advertising Sales
Henry J. Watkins joined Voyage North America as Vice President of Advertising Sales. He is responsible for creating and implementing Voyage’s global endemic advertising sales strategy. Henry has more than 20 years of multimedia experience in print, promotions and digital media. Before joining Voyage, Henry was the International Travel Advertising Director for Doubledown Media. Before that he was Associate Publisher at Sherman’s Travel Media; Vice President of business development for TV-One; Publisher of Savoy Magazine; and National Advertising/Custom Publishing Director of the DC Comics Division of Warner Bros. Henry graduated magna cum laude from Hofstra University with a bachelor’s degree in communications.

Josette Persson – Series Producer Signature Programming
Josette Persson brings 10 years of television production credits and expertise to the Voyage team. Her hands-on experience includes in-field and in-studio production, international features, and both live-to-tape and live-to-air programming. Josette's experience includes producing breaking stories for the ABC News Emmy Award–winning Good Morning America. She was also on the launch team for Universal Music Group's International Music Feed network. Within a two-month deadline, Josette helped launch the 24-hour television network featuring international music from around the globe. During this time she booked and produced interviews with high-profile music artists in Tokyo, Stockholm, Helsinki and Reykjavik, Iceland. Josette managed all aspects of the international shoots, including budget management, international crew and booking coordination, producing, writing, conducting interviews and supervising post-production sessions. Josette has a background in management consulting from Accenture.

Ariane Marder – Executive Editor
Ariane Marder brings eight years of publishing experience to her position as executive editor at Voyage. She is responsible for all written content on the site and copy provided to partnering outlets. She also oversees quality control and manages resident editor functions. Before Voyage, Ariane spent three years as an associate editor at Men’s Fitness. She has contributed lifestyle features to numerous publications, including Zink, Spin and BlackBook.com; she was one of the original writers of BlackBook.com’s Little Black Book nightlife guides, where she worked to establish voice and reviewed dozens of restaurants, bars, clubs and hotels. Ariane graduated from New York University in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree. Her first book will be published by John Wiley & Sons in January 2010.

Ben Roth – Commercial Manager
Ben oversees all aspects of production for Hotel Video Profiles to ensure satisfaction from initial contact with each property through the development and implementation of production itineraries, post-production and client follow-up. Ben also controls the Voyage Licensing Program, which provides usage of hotel footage to partnering properties for their own external marketing usage. Before joining Voyage, Ben worked for two years as a Production Coordinator in short format advertising for television, Internet and print outlets with premier commercial production companies, including Radical Media, Epoch Films and Moxie Pictures. He has three years of sales experience as an Interactive Account Executive for the Tribune Company. Ben graduated from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in communications.

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