Mr. Robert J. Funk - President and Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Funk is currently the President and Chief operating Officer of TravelStoreMaker.com.
Mr. Funk, a senior travel industry executive, has had extensive experience in the application and utilization of information technology in the travel and transportation industries. His career, spanning nearly three decades, has been highlighted by his holding officer level positions with the world's third largest travel management company and the world's largest airline computerized reservations systems company (CRS).

Prior to joining TravelStoreMaker.com, Mr. Funk was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Budget Car Rental Systems. Prior to joining Budget, and for a period of two years, he ran his own consulting firm specializing in strategy development for suppliers of travel industry products and services.

Immediately prior to his consulting venture, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Rosenbluth International Travel, the third largest corporate travel management company in the world. In this capacity he directed Rosenbluth's implementation of AT&T's 'Network ACD' inbound telemarketing and call center management system and was responsible for the redesign of Rosenbluth's information systems infrastructure, directing the company's transition from legacy mainframe systems to a state-of-the-art distributed architecture leveraging client/server technologies. During this assignment, Mr. Funk was named to CIO Magazine's prestigious "Top 100 CIO's" list.

Prior to this engagement, Mr. Funk was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Galileo International, the global distribution system company owned by United Airlines, British Airways and 8 other international airlines. Located in Swindon, England, he directed the creation of the company's Information Systems department, Product Development and Marketing organizations and their 24 hour per day/7 day per week customer support center in England.

Before the creation of Galileo, and immediately prior to his assignment in Europe, Mr. Funk spent four years as Director of United Airline's Apollo Computer installation in Denver, Colorado. Apollo is the airline reservations system that was the predecessor to and the technological basis upon which the Galileo system was designed and built. In this position, Mr. Funk had overall responsibility for the 24 hour per day operation of the Apollo computerized reservations system. He was specifically responsible for all computer and data network systems as well as for systems software development and support.

Mr. Funk began his career as a Telephone Sales Representative for United Airlines and has spent much of the past twenty-five years helping his employers identify and apply technology to reduce costs and improve quality in point-of-sale and customer service environments.

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