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VacationRenter Solutions is led by a team of seasoned
professionals, all with extensive experience in Vacation Rental
Industry. |
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Jeffrey R. Idso, President |
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Mark Parisot, VP - Engineering |
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Rajan Singh, Director - Search Engine Marketing |
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Tyler J. Jensen, Director – Sales |
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| Jeffrey R. Idso,
President |
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Prior to
forming Vikarta, Inc, Mr. Idso co-founded YellowPages
Travel, Inc. in 2003, WebAccommodate Systems, Inc. in
2000, and Spark Online, Inc. in 1997. YellowPages Travel
was sold to BellSouth and SBC Communications in late
2004. WebAccommodate Systems was acquired by Vikarta
subsidiary Vacation Renter Solutions in late 2005. Spark
Online wasacquired by Globalgate eCommerce Corporation
in 1999.
Mr. Idso served as President & CEO of YellowPages Travel
after founding the company in 2003 with YellowPages.Com,
Inc. In addition to creating a |
leading online travel
brand,YellowPages Travel developed proprietary booking
technology for Internet Yellow Page companies enabling
consumers to make bookings directly from Internet Yellow
Page websites and emerged as the premier provider of
travel business listing data for the Yellow Page
industry. As co-founder and CEO of WebAccommodate
System, Mr. Idso led the development of the vacation
rental industry's first electronic distribution system
and real-time booking infrastructure for the highly
fragmented vacation rental travel market segment.
WebAccommodate's electronic distribution system enables
property management and timeshare companies to make
their rental units available for booking across all
electronic distribution channels, including the
Internet. Prior to WebAccommodate Systems, Mr.
Idso co-founded Spark Online in 1997 where he served as
CEO prior to selling the company to Globalgate eCommerce
Corporation. While at Spark Online Mr. Idso led the
development of a proprietary enterprise-class supply
chain automation technology platform which automates
complex business workflow process including product
catalog development, buying and selling processes such
as price and contract negotiation, and post purchase
analysis and reporting. The company's first vertical
industry solution MediaMpact automated the buying and
selling of online media and was adopted by the world's
leading advertising agencies and 2500 online media
publishers. The company's MediaMpact product won product
of show at the industry's preeminent tradeshow AdTech in
1999. Also In 1999 Spark Online was named one of the top
100 Internet companies by Merrill Lynch. After selling
Spark Online to Globalgate e-Commerce Corporation in
1999, Mr. Idso acted as Managing Director, Strategic
Partnerships for Globalgate while he maintained duties
as the President and CEO of Spark Online. While at
Globalgate he was responsible for identifying and
forging key business partnerships for Globalgate and its
operating companies, identifying and evaluating new
acquisition candidates and assisting with the
development of the company's strategic product
direction.
Mr. Idso has CEO-level relationships with many major
online travel and travel technology companies, leading
advertising agencies, online media publishing companies,
venture firms, and investment banks. As a 10 year
veteran of founding and building Internet and software
companies, Mr. Idso has founded several companies and
has over 20 years information technology and management
experience with Fortune 500 firms including American
Stores and Chevron USA . Mr. Idso holds an MBA from St.
Mary's College, and a Bachelor of Science degree in
Computer Information Systems from Arizona State
University . |
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| Mark Parisot, VP - Engineering |
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Mark Parisot
has more than 21 years of engineering experience. As VP
Engineering for WebAccommodate, Mark designed the travel
industries first electronic distribution system for vacation
rentals. Before WebAccommodate, Mark was a Director of
Engineering at Spark Online, a start-up software company
specializing in Internet based B2B workflow applications.
The first application, MediaMpact, was developed to
introduce revolutionary efficiencies for the Internet media
advertising agency and publisher market segments. MediaMpact
and theSpark Internet Messaging |
System (IMS)were
developed together as a highly distributed Internet workflow
application.
Mark spent over 13 years in various senior engineering and
team lead positions for Hewlett Packard Information Systems. Mark has a M.S. in Decision and Information
Systems, with business emphasis from Arizona State
University and a B.S. in Computer Science from the
University of Idaho. |
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| Rajan Singh,
Director - Search Engine Marketing |
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Rajan Singh heads up our Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
and Interactive Marketing team in India. Mr. Singh was
previously a Senior Manager with ebookers.com, one of the
most popular online travel agencies in the UK. At
ebookers.com, he successfully managed the marketing and
website development services provided to more than 14
countries throughout Europe and the United States. Prior to
ebookers.com, he held the position of Manager, Interactive
Media Marketing with
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FCS Software Solution
Ltd. where he was responsible for Internet marketing and
online operations of the e- learning division.Before FCS, he
was employed in various web marketing management roles with
D & M Global Ltd., Infopro India Pvt. Ltd. and Amtrak
Technologies. Mr. Singh received his MBA with the Northern
Institute for Integrated Learning in Management out of
Delhi, India and a M.Sc., Computer Science from Maharishi
Daynand Unniviversity. He also holds a B.S. with the
University of Allahabad . |
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| Tyler J. Jensen,
Director – Sales |
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Tyler brings many years of experience with Customer Relationship Management and Predictive Dialing integration and has successfully implemented his techniques in multiple companies. With eCo Marketing Tyler directed two shifts of 64 telephone-sales agents, and has also managed customer service teams for Qwest Communications on customer retention and quality control. Previous to joining the Vacation Renter Solutions team as the Director of Sales, Mr. Jensen participated in the founding of Rhino Media Works, and successfully grew it to dozens of sales executives in 3 states.
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