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The Vacation Business Is Built on Moments. Jeff Myers Runs the Machine Behind Them.
After 35 years inside one company, Jeff Myers still treats hospitality as a people business - only now the scoreboard includes 4,400 associates, 590,000 tours and more than $2.1 billion in annual sales.
Tony Walker Sells the Vacation Before You Book It
He started on the timeshare floor and worked his way to the corner office of the biggest name in vacation ownership. The pitch never changed - only the size of the room.
Dusty Tonkin
He has spent nearly three decades learning how people decide to buy a piece of their own vacation. Now he runs sales and marketing for the company that turned that idea into a global business.
Caroline Shin
Caroline Shin is the CEO and co-founder of Vacatia, a San Francisco-based marketplace reinventing the $35 billion timeshare industry. A MIT nuclear engineering graduate who cut her teeth building Hotwire from the ground up and running global CRM at Starwood Hotels, she launched Vacatia in 2013 to apply technology-first thinking to an industry that had barely touched the internet. Under her leadership, Vacatia has raised $46.8M across multiple rounds, acquired several resort management companies, grown to 750+ industry partners, and expanded to manage 4,750 resort units across eight states.