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<h1 class="title title_suave">About Off &amp; Away</h1>

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<p>
  Through its pioneering private sales and bid-to-win auctions, Off &amp; Away curates and offers travel
  connoisseurs incredible values on the best four and five star hotels in the world. The company believes that
  people deserve to experience more when they travel and when they shop for travel, and it works with its premier
  hotel partners to provide these experiences.</p>

<p>Our company was founded by former Amazon.com and travel industry executives,
  and is backed by Madrona Venture Group, the venture capital firm behind Amazon.com, Farecast.com (now Bing Travel)
  and VacationSpot (now a part of Expedia).</p>

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  and Facebook to keep up with all of the news at Off &amp; Away.</p>

<p>Thank you,</p>

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  <span>Doug Aley</span> <span>Michael Walton</span>
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  <h2>About the Team</h2>
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      <strong>Doug Aley <a href="http://twitter.com/dougaley" target="_blank">@dougaley</a></strong>
      <br/>Founder &amp; CEO
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      <h3>Doug Aley</h3>

      <p>Doug helps steer the ship at Off &amp; Away. When he's not acting as pure overhead, he's helping the
        marketing and business development teams.</p>

      <p>Doug has over 10 years of product, marketing, and business development experience across online
        retail, mobile, and web applications. Prior to Off &amp; Away, Doug was VP of Marketing and Business
        Development at Jott Networks (sold to NUAN '09). Prior to Jott, Doug led product management efforts in
        retail and digital categories at Amazon.com. He dropped out of college to start his first company (SSB
        BART Group) and remains on the board today. Doug got his BA from Stanford University (he went back)
        and his MBA from Harvard Business School. He has an amazing wife and a new son, the latter of which
        may hit Alaska's MVP Gold in his first year on this planet. </p>

      <p>When talking about memorable travel experiences this is what Doug said. "My favorite travel memories
        are proposing to my (now) wife atop Mt. Kilimanjaro, dining with her at Al Sorriso on our honeymoon in
        Italy, and kayaking in the Milford Sound, New Zealand."</p>
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      <strong>Michael Walton <a href="http://twitter.com/michaelwalton" target="_blank">@michaelwalton</a></strong>
      <br/>Founder &amp; Chief Product Officer
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      <h3>Michael Walton</h3>

      <p>Michael is a co-founder of Off &amp; Away and oversees all things product &amp; engineering.</p>

      <p>Michael has spent his career focused on building amazing customer experiences at companies like
        Orbitz Worldwide, where he lead the company's CRM &amp; personalization efforts, and Amazon.com in
        their Digital Media division. Most recently, Michael served as the VP of Product for Jott Networks
        (acquired by Nuance Communications in 2009) in charge of product management, product marketing &amp;
        customer support. Michael has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a BS in Computer
        Science from NC State (go Wolfpack!).</p>

      When asked about travel experiences Michael has this to say. "Without question, my favorite travel
      experience was meeting my beautiful wife on a riverboat cruise of the Nile in Cairo, Egypt."</p>
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      <strong>Brooke Steger</strong>
      <br/>Operations Manager
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      <h3>Brooke Steger</h3>

      <p>Brooke is the best customer service leader we've ever met, and also oversees our auctions. Brooke
        worked with Doug &amp; Michael before at Jott and was most recently at Amdocs.</p>
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      <strong>Kevin Sontgerath</strong>
      <br/>Business Development Manager
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      <h3>Kevin Sontgerath</h3>

      <p>Kevin closes deals. We found him roaming the streets of Seattle peddling real estate. We'll keep
        him.</p>
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      <strong>Brian Gebala</strong>
      <br/>VP of Engineering
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      <h3>Brian Gebala</h3>

      <p>Brian makes sure Off &amp; Away is real time, all the time. He was most recently Director of
        Engineering at Mpire and prior to that he was at Citrix Online.</p>
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      <strong>Nick Redmond</strong>
      <br/>Creative Director and Lead UI Developer
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      <h3>Nick Redmond</h3>

      <p>Nick balances form and function, and makes sure we don't take ourselves too seriously. He was most
        recently Creative Director at Mpire and also worked with Doug and Michael at Jott Networks.</p>
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      <strong>Joe Aleardi</strong>
      <br/>Sr. Account Manager
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      <h3>Joe Aleardi</h3>

      <p>Joe has been making customers and partners happy his entire working life, most recently for Bank of
        America.</p>
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      <strong>Hanna Chang</strong>
      <br/>Manager of Online Media
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      <h3>Hanna Chang</h3>

      <p>Hanna is our resident marketing goddess. She makes sure the world knows about Off & Away. The world
        is big. Hanna is busy.</p>
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      <strong>Jen Huss</strong>
      <br/>Community Manager
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      <h3>Jen Huss</h3>

      <p>Our resident social butterfly, Jen mingles with the Off &amp; Away community through our social media
        and customer service channels.</p>
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      <strong>Ian Shafer</strong>
      <br/>Software Engineer
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      <h3>Ian Shafer</h3>

      <p>Ian's a rockstar - or rather, he crafts fun web experiences for rockstars. Whether those rockstars be
        for our travel loving customers or Pearl Jam, where he's spent the last several years running their
        web experience.</p>
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      <strong>Andrew Murray</strong>
      <br/>Software Engineer
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      <h3>Andrew Murray</h3>

      <p>Andrew's a hybrid - part quant geek, part dev, part i-banker, part fitness nut, all smarts. He has
        his hands in a little bit of everything at Off & Away from the database to the front end to mobile
        experiences.</p>
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  <a href="http://www.madrona.com" target="_blank">
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  <h2>Directors</h2>
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  <strong>Brad Gerstner</strong> - CEO at Altimeter Capital; Board Member for Orbitz Worldwide<br/>
  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradgerstner" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> |
  Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/altcap" target="_blank">@altcap</a>
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  <strong>Matt McIlwain</strong> - Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group<br/>
  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-mcilwain/0/522/692" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> |
  Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/mattmcilwain" target="_blank">@mattmcilwain</a>
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  <h2>Advisors</h2>
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  <strong>Owen Van Natta</strong> - Executive Vice President of Business, Zynga<br/>
  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/owen-van-natta/0/a7/444" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>
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  <strong>Hugh Crean</strong> - Former CEO of Farecast (now Bing Travel)<br/>
  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/hugh-crean/0/654/851" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>
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  <strong>Alex Bard</strong> - Founder &amp; CEO of Assistly<br/>
  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbard" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> |
  Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/alexbard" target="_blank">@alexbard</a>
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  <strong>Gary Benitt</strong> - Founder &amp; COO of Assistly<br/>
  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/garybenitt" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> |
  Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/garybenitt" target="_blank">@garybenitt</a>
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  <strong>Steve Jarvis</strong> - VP Marketing, Small & Midsize Business, Concur<br/>
  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-jarvis/6/248/156" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> |
  Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/sbjarvis" target="_blank">@sbjarvis</a>
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