Leonora Valvo, CEO
CEO and Founder of The Global Executive Companies, Leonora is a life-long entrepreneur who has launched and led three successful companies in the travel and conference industries. The entrepreneurial highlights of Ms Valvo’s career include “innovative, best practice” solutions in the area of corporate consolidation, cost efficiencies and in-house operations and logistics systems as well as successfully engineering strategic global partnerships. She is a member of the prestigious C200, a professional organization of preeminent women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders.

John Collins, EVP, Business Development
As EVP of Business Development, John oversees global business development, alliances, partnerships and sales. John’s 20 year history of growing ISV’s will be instrumental in the continued global expansion of etouches. John started his career as one of the original members of TCG, which did a very successful IPO and was later sold to AT&T. Prior to joining etouches, John was Vice President of Global Business Development at VPI Systems where he developed a global partner network including such Fortune 100 companies as SAP, HP, IBM, Accenture, Telcordia and Logica CMG.

Tim Cummins, Chief Software Architect
Tim, a graduate of Oxford University, developed web sites and web-based applications for a range of corporate clients before joining Global Executive. He created and continues to lead development of the etouches suite of technology tools. His intimate knowledge of the software, coupled with a keen awareness of the events industry, allows him to tailor our technology solutions to your business objectives. Tim plays an integral part in achieving and expanding the Global Executive Technology Lifecycle.

Welles Hatch, Chief Financial Officer
Welles Hatch is an experienced financial and operations executive with a background leading technology companies through expansion stage growth. In his role of Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Hatch has positioned organizations for scale development and investment, including New Vision Systems, an international enterprise software firm, and Fine Arts Express, the first national full service arts logistics firm in the US. Mr. Hatch serves on Linear Air’s board of managers.

Neil Keefe, Director, Product Development
Neil, a Bristol University graduate, is a results-orientated IT professional with 12 years of diverse experience in consultative, development, managerial and support roles at all levels. Nine of these years have been in the events industry, working on projects for clients including Gartner, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and SWIFT giving him a unique business and technical knowledge and a track record of delivering results to improve and enhance business performance in a rapidly evolving marketplace.

Allison See, Director, Operations
Allison has been with Global Executive for over 9 years and has been instrumental in handling the management responsibilities in the multi-faceted area of event registration and housing. In her new role as Director, Operations, Allison brings her exceptional customer service skills and unique problem solving to orchestrate and lead the internal team of program managers, to include registration and housing as well as meeting planners.

Julian Ward, Director, Suppport
Julian entered the IT services industry in 1992 after graduating from college in the UK. He began his tenure in the industry by working for one of Europe’s largest value added resellers implementing large scale projects both in the UK and for large multinational clients. In 1998, Julian joined Gartner Group Europe and managed technical projects for EMEA as well as many global projects. Relocating to the US within Gartner in 2000, Julian headed up the Client Care team for many sites, implementing best practices and standards for support. More recently Julian has worked within the events industry building two events that have become industry leaders in their markets; he did this with the help of etouches. Having been a client for two years prior to joining the company, Julian brings first hand end user knowledge and an understanding of the events industry to the etouches Implementation and Support Team.