Paul G Hoffmann, President and CEO:
As former President of CNG, U.S.A. Mr. Hoffmann saw the potential and opportunity of a newly developed technology that would offer a clear impact in the resolution of a decades old industry challenge, Hotel Commission reconciliation and recovery. In the development and implementation of this technology over four years ago, ECS’ increasing market penetration and business approach is quickly changing the process in the first “end to end” business solution in the area of commission consolidation, segment capture, reconciliation, tracking, dunning, recovery and reporting. Included in Mr. Hoffmann’s diverse thirty years experience in the travel industry prior of acquiring CNG USA, six years ago he was a member of the Tzell Travel Group’s Executive Team. There he directly oversaw Tzell’s technology and Internet development as well as implementation of potential strategic alliances to foster Tzell’s growth initiative. Previous experiences also include travel technology and automation. From the early days as a Marketing Automation Service Specialist at Sabre to the Chief Operating Officer of a premier travel industry software developer Automated Travel Systems, creator of product such as ResFAX, ResMAIL, EasyFEE and ResQCX. There he participated as a member for two terms with the NBTA (National Business Travel Association) Travel Technology Committee providing session concepts and best practices agenda’s for the Association’s Annual National Conference. In addition to being one of ATS’ founding members and an equity partner, Paul also served as President and C.O.O. of Carrier Travel Management Services an $80M corporate travel agency headquartered in New York City. In addition to travel technology and agency management, the scope of Paul’s professional background extends to positions in airport operations, airline passenger sales as well as incentive and motivation program design. <back to top>
 
Mark Lewington, Chief Operating Officer:
Mr. Lewington brings over twenty years of extensive operational, finance and processing specific to the hotel and travel industry. As Financial Controller for Sales, Marketing and IT at Hilton International, Mr. Lewington was responsible for 225 hotels, expenditures, budgeting and an IT program responsible for nearly $500M in expenditures. He then was responsible as Director of Hilton’s Centralized Commission Program that controlled and processed nearly $150,000,000 annually. Mr. Lewington then moved to the other side of the process as V.P. of Vendor Relations at Net Trans. Here he established operational programs for suppliers in monitoring customer services and commission distribution services. He then spent four years as Senior Commissions Consultant at Pegasus where he developed and number of enhancements in commission financial reporting, settlement payments and currency conversion processes. Mr. Lewington then was in part instrumental in the enhanced commission payment/retrieval systems that served both the hotels and the travel agency community. With that experience Mr. Lewington joined, ECS’ reconciliation and dunning services partner and makes a significant contribution to the integration of ECS’ proprietary technology with existing reconciliation, tracking, reconciliation and recovery program. <back to top>
 
James Head, Chief Financial Officer:
With over 40 years experience in the Banking and Financial Industry Mr. Head clearly brings a significant experience and expertise to this integrated program. Starting out as a State Bank Examiner for the State of Florida for state chartered commercial banks, savings and loan institution and credit unions Mr. Head then went on the become Vice President and Cashier for Barnett Bank. He established the first data processing center in West Florida. He then served as Chairman and President of Florida Payment Systems when the automated clearing house operations were first established in Florida. At that time he also served as on the Board of Directors of the NACHA, (National Automated Clearing House Association.) Furthering his expertise Mr. Head then was appointed Vice President of Operations for Barnett Bank in Florida where he coordinated the systems and procedures for the Holding Company. He then was promoted with Barnett Bank to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Administrative Officer positions. As backroom systems and technology evolved, Jim was part of that development and successful deployment throughout the bank’s operations and branches. With this extensive financial and technical operations background, Jim brings an unparalleled resource and wealth of experience to this operation which benefits a myriad of facets of this program. <back to top>

Randy Masters, Vice President of Systems Architecture and Development:
As chief developer and architect of ECS’ proprietary mid office technology, Mr. Masters brings over 24 years of direct travel industry experience. Mr. Masters started his experience as a corporate travel agent with responsibilities in Quality Control, ticketing and GDS account management. His position then evolved with the main concentration as the AQUA Software Administrator and program development. In 1991 Randy was recruited by the Software Company and held positions as Programmer, Manager of Customer Support, then as Senior Development Programmer, Project Manager and then promoted to Manager of Software Development and Maintenance. This experience provided Randy the platform and expertise that has resulted in detail oriented catalogued programming and results. Randy was then recruited by CNG, PLC as Senior Software Engineer and was expeditiously promoted to Lead Architect and Development Manager for the Kalypso Mid-Office Application. Randy joined ECS full time after performing a brief consultancy role with the Mid Office Application. Currently as Vice President of Systems Architecture and Development he is responsible for all facets of the agency integration for ECS’ proprietary software Mid Office “SNAP SHOT”, all GDS API interfaces, systems integrations as well as ECS new product design. Mr. Masters is also an equity partner in eCommission Solutions, LLC <back to top>