Greg Pesik, President and CEO
Greg brings extensive hospitality and travel information technology experience to Passkey. Prior to joining Passkey, Greg served as Senior Vice President of Transport, Travel, and Hospitality at Talus Solutions which was acquired by Manugistics in late 2001. During his tenure, Pesik helped position the company as the leading provider of profit optimization technologies and orchestrated Talus Solution's move into new industries such as gaming. Before joining Passkey, Greg oversaw an industry portfolio that included hotels, passenger airlines, cruise lines, cargo, ocean shipping, rail, trucking, and rental cars.

Prior to Talus Solutions, Greg was Vice President and Director of Business Development at Aeronomics, Inc. where he first entered the field of yield and revenue management software. He has also held lead consulting and management positions for Andersen Consulting (Accenture) and KPMG Peat Marwick (Bearing Point), both in the fields of hospitality and travel. He is a frequent guest lecturer at Cornell University and speaker at industry forums. Greg holds an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration.

Paul Rantilla, Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Paul joined Passkey in March 2002 to head up sales, drawing business opportunities from across all channels of the meetings and conventions industry. He most recently served as Director of Sales for Newmarket International, Inc. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire where he successfully managed an extensive sales force in North America and Asia Pacific, and was responsible for revenue growth rates of as much as 25% within a single fiscal year. He began his career with the company in 1995, holding several positions, all of them related to software technology sales. As Regional Sales Director, Paul was named top producer of achieved sales. He then was promoted to managing director, Asia Pacific, and enjoyed great successes closing contracts with a number of major hotel operations. Paul received his degree in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire.

Steven L. Shapiro, CFO and Senior Vice President of Operations
Steve Shapiro has over 25 years of financial, administrative and operational management experience. He is a versatile Chief Financial Officer with a history of accomplishments, including leading a successful IPO. Prior to joining Passkey in September 2005, Steve was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at SquareAnswer, an internet technology company. Previously, he had been the CFO at diverse companies within the software, telecom, technology, bioscience and retail industries. Steve began his career in public accounting and was a Senior Manager at Arthur Andersen. He is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts.

Alicia Moran, Vice President, Client Services and Results Delivery
Alicia has nearly two decades of sales, marketing and management experience in the meetings and hospitality industries. Prior to joining Passkey, Alicia was Vice President, Sales and Marketing, for Event Travel Management, Inc., an early adopter of Passkey applications for expositions, trade shows and conferences in the Information Technologies industry. Previously, she was with Globetrotters of Cambridge, MA, a travel industry wholesaler, for eight years, where she joined as a Marketing Manager and left as Vice President of Marketing. Alicia holds a business management degree from Providence College.

Sam Fahmy, Vice President of Marketing & Products
Prior to joining Passkey, Sam co-founded and led marketing, products and strategy at Bungo, an award-winning on-line software company. During his career at Bungo, Sam grew the company from concept into a venture-backed, high-growth software company with hundreds of thousands of users, a stellar list of Fortune 1000 customers and growing international presence.

Before Bungo, Sam was senior executive at Japonica Partners, a leading buyouts and management firm, where he was instrumental in several landmark transactions that netted over $2 billion in value for stakeholders. Sam spearheaded massive revenue and profit growth at Sunbeam, contributing to the spectacular 18-month turnaround and $1.2 billion initial public offering of the company. Sam started his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble, received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from American University, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.

Scott Rudberg, Vice President of Engineering
Scott Rudberg joined Passkey in 1997 and has held various key roles including Director of Product Management and Director of Engineering and is currently the Vice President of Engineering. In his time at Passkey, Scott has directed the design and development of every Passkey product and release. Scott has over 18 years experience managing the development of software products and systems, with over 9 years developing web-based solutions for the Meetings and Hospitality Industry. His other experience includes guidance system engineering for missile defense systems at Raytheon where he started his career, to product management of software development tools and call center applications for Conextions. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from the F W Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Joel Pyser, Chief Client Officer
Joel is an accomplished 30 year veteran of the hospitality industry. He joined Passkey in December 2009 to lead the Client Services Division. In his role as Chief Client Officer, Joel is responsible for implementations, training, customer support, and account management. His career began in food and beverage where he held positions from Lounge Manager to Sous Chef. In 2007 Joel retired from Marriott International, after 20 years of service, where he held positions in convention services, catering sales, group sales, as well as several corporate staff positions. Joel finished his tenure at Marriott, as Vice President of Field Sales responsible for National Group Sales, Regional Sales Offices, and Eventcom International by Marriott. After leaving Marriott Joel entered the start-up world by creating a unique site selection company called Inn Fluent. Prior to joining Passkey, Joel was the Managing Director for HelmsBriscoe. Joel is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University with degrees in Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management. Now he is currently active in MPI and PCMA.