Robert E. Grady

Robert E. Grady is Managing Director of The Carlyle Group and Chairman of the firm's U.S. venture and growth capital arm, Carlyle Venture Partners (CVP). Carlyle Group has previously invested in such online travel companies as C-Trip (Nasdaq: "CTRP") and Egencia (acquired by Expedia (Nasdaq: "EXPD"), and, Orizonia, the leading vertically integrated tour operator in Spain.

Prior to Carlyle, Bob was a managing director at Robertson Stephens, the San Francisco-based technology investment bank. From 1994 to 2004, Bob was a member of the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He served in the White House from 1989 to 1993, as deputy assistant to President George H.W. Bush and as Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Bob is an Advisory Trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and sits on the boards of the Jackson Hole Land Trust, the Pardee RAND Graduate School, TechNet, and the Asia America Multi-Industry Association (AAMA); and on the Advisory Council of the Royal Bank of Canada's Venture Capital Funds; and on the National Commission on Energy Policy. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Bob is an honors graduate of Harvard College and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Greg Jones

As the founder and CEO of WorldRes, Greg Jones grew the company to be one of the leading online hotel reservation companies and led it to profitability in 2001 with $240 million of gross hotel bookings. For the past few years Greg has focused on 'angel' investing and advising early stage companies. He is currently the CEO of Fluid Entertainment (kid's MMOG), Executive Chairman of Surfparks, and a member of the boards of Consorte Media and Go10000. Prior to WorldRes, Greg was Director of the Advanced Technology Group and held senior marketing positions with Synopsys (the leader in EDA software). Earlier in his career, he spent a number of years in management consulting with McKinsey & Company and Edgar, Dunn & Company. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College.

Greg truly loves to travel, and throughout his lifetime has taken a number of extended sabbatical-type trips that amount to nearly three years of traveling. In 2002, Greg traveled for an entire year with his two young daughters and his wife, travel writer and photographer Amanda Jones. Destinations experienced (and surfed) on that journey included Mexico, Spain, Morocco, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Samoa, and New Zealand. When he wasn't catching a wave in places like Bali, Fiji, Panama or South Africa, Greg could have been found on a bamboo raft on the Mae Taeng in Thailand, or on horseback riding herd with wildebeest in Botswana. For those who share Greg's passion for the long board, he recommends any of Viator's Surfing Lessons in destinations like Sydney, Melbourne, Maui, Kauai, Orlando and Los Angeles.

John Murray

Director and General Partner, TVP

John Murray is director and general partner of Technology Venture Partners (TVP), one of the largest specialist technology venture capital firms in Australia, and a company he co-founded in 1997. TVP was one of the early investors in Viator. Prior to creating TVP, John was a founding executive of the Australian Technology Group (ATG) in 1993, where he was responsible for information technology-related venture capital investments. Previously, John established Bank of America's Asian venture capital business in Hong Kong, and also worked on corporate finance and investment banking projects with Bank of America in the UK and Asia. Early in his career, John worked in both the accounting and IT services industries in the UK.

John has traveled extensively for business and for pleasure. As an avid outdoorsman, some of John's most memorable experiences include fly fishing in South Island, New Zealand and windsurfing Margaret River in West Australia. Originally hailing from Edinburgh, Scotland, John believes everyone should see the Scottish Highlands at least once in their life, and recommends doing so through Viator's Highland Explorer tour.

Chris R. Vukelich

Chris is a travel industry consultant with more than 30 years of experience in various sectors, including the airline, hotel, tour operator and travel-distribution arenas. Chris has held senior roles with industry leaders such as British Airways, Hilton International and Travelport (formerly Cendant Travel Distribution Services). Most recently he was Chief Operating Officer for Travelport's B2B Services division in Europe, Middle East and Africa, leading the Galileo travel reservations system as well as Gullivers Travel Associates, one of the world's largest wholesalers of hotels and destination services.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a native of Pittsburgh, Chris is logically a huge supporter of the Pittsburgh Steelers and enjoys hiking and camping, the occasional game of golf as well as plenty of international travel (which is why he entered the industry to begin with). Chris' most memorable travel experiences? An elephant trek in Thailand and hiking to the very top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. After seven years living in London, Chris, his wife and two children have returned to the U.S. and currently reside in Scottsdale, Arizona.