Mr. Sontag has been a director of the company since February 1994. He is a Director of and Senior Executive Advisor to TQ3 Travel Solutions Management Holding GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of TUI A.G. in Hanover, Germany, a DAX 30 company. Mr. Sontag also is a director of Coast Dental of Tampa, Florida, a reporting company. Since 2000 he has been a Director of NetHotels Travel Software Technology GmbH of Vienna, Austria. From 1997 to 2000, he was Chairman of Travel Industries, Inc., d/b/a/ THOR, Inc., which provided marketing, management, and automated operational services to associated travel distributors worldwide. Mr. Sontag was the founder and Chairman and CEO of USTravel a $2.4 billion commercial travel company he sold in 1994. He also is the owner of Fast Lane Travel, Inc. a company specializing in upscale incentive travel. Previously he supplied strategic, travel, and automation consulting services to various national and international clients; was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Sontag, Annis & Associates, Inc., a travel technology and strategy firm sold to Citicorp in 1987. Mr. Sontag has an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a B.S. in Marketing and Economics. He was awarded a Dr.h.c. for his accomplishments in the travel and transportation industry and was elected four times as one of the most influential executives in the travel industry. |