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Raven Grove-Taylor Has Seven Continents and One Rule: Keep the Splurge Clever
After 47 countries and all seven continents, the Newport Beach travel advisor has built a practice around an unusually practical proposition: a trip can feel indulgent without behaving irresponsibly at checkout.
Rachel Sharpnack and the Useful Art of Leaving Room
She began behind a AAA desk, spent years in corporate finance, then returned to travel with a deceptively disciplined idea: plan every important detail, and protect enough empty space for a trip to become its own story.
Janine Dawson Planned a Second Act Before She Planned the Trips
After 25 years of teaching people how to navigate products, change and work, the Philadelphia-area learning executive turned the same discipline toward a livelier syllabus: helping travelers meet the world on their own terms.
Michael Greene
Michael Greene is the CEO and President of Skylark, a New York based luxury travel agency that blends human travel advisors with high-tech booking tools. A Cornell Hotel School graduate, he spent a decade building hospitality marketplaces - leading the Amex Global Dining Network and global growth at Resy, co-founding the members-only restaurant platform Dorsia, and serving as Chief of Staff at Avero. He now leads Skylark and its members-only last-minute luxury hotel platform, Wanderluxe.
Dayo Esho
Dayo Esho is the Co-founder and CEO of TravelJoy, a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that serves as an all-in-one operating system for independent travel advisors. Raised on the front lines of his mother's travel agency, he built TravelJoy after interviewing 50 travel agents and confirming a near-universal set of pain points: too many spreadsheets, too little time, and no software built specifically for them. Since launching, TravelJoy has grown to facilitate over $1 billion in annual customer spend, raised a $10M Series A led by Acrew Capital in March 2024, and deployed an AI-powered Itinerary Copilot that is reshaping how travel advisors create and sell trips.