Rich Weight
Rich is a co-founder & Managing Partner of the Denver Consulting Group, Inc., with over 25 years experience in managing service related businesses. His professional experience includes 15 years with national hotel and restaurant operations in a variety of positions, including: General Manager & Regional Director with ITT Sheraton Hotels, Director of Operations, Vice President of Operations, President and CEO. During the past 20 years he has owned and operated two multi-unit restaurant chains and a Management Consulting firm.

Rich conducts workshops and seminars on Customer Service, Team Building, Organization Development, Leadership Training, and Business Development. He is a regular guest lecturer for a variety of organizations and associations. Rich serves on a variety of Advisory Boards in both the private and public sectors: The Distributive Education Club of America; The Denver Athletic Club; and The Texas Restaurant Association, among others. Contact.

 Bill O'Connor
Bill is also a co-founder & Managing Partner of The Denver Consulting Group, Inc., and was the founder and former President of The Trinity Group, Inc. He also is an owner and co-founder of The Travel Society, Inc. Bill spent 2 years with Frontier Airlines as Director of Pricing/Inventory Management and General Manager of Sales and 18 years with United Airlines in a broad variety of Customer Service, Sales and Marketing positions including: Asst. Vice-President, Mountain Region; Reservations Sales Manager; Regional Manager of Automation Sales; District Sales Manager; Personnel Manager and a variety of operations and service positions.

Bill has served on a variety of Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards in both the private and public sectors: South African Tourism; Hong Kong Tourism Travel Advisory Board; Hotel View (Virtual Data) Advisory Board; Rail Europe, Inc.; Switzerland Tourism, Choice Hotels and others. He conducts seminars on entrepreneurship, business development, sales and tourism, and is a regular guest lecturer at many educational institutions. Detailed Biography

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The Denver Consulting Group, Inc. has partnered with some of the top companies in their respective fields. We are very proud of the companies with whom we have teamed with over the years, and we are especially proud of our Joint Venture with The Eastman Group. Inc. (TEG). Our alliance with TEG focuses on marketing the AutoLink II™ switch to airline global reservation systems, hotels, travel agencies, rental car companies, travel consortia, national tourism organizations and tour companies.

The Eastman Group, Inc. (TEG) The Eastman Group

The Eastman Group, founded and led by industry visionary Richard Eastman, has developed proprietary industry software solutions that deliver low-cost, intelligent PC based connectivity between virtually any platform. TEG's lead product, AutoLink II™, delivers real-time, multithreaded, object-oriented, large-scale processing using data-grid plane computing in a .NET architecture.

Capt. Art Ziccardi

Art is a 40 year aviation veteran, having served as a consultant, entrepreneur, educator, and pilot. Art now serves as an International B747-400 pilot with United Airlines. Capt. Ziccardi broad experience offers a unique blend of hands-on business, operational, and certification expertise, in the general and regional airline industry. Starting as an instructor and charter pilot, Art went on to operate a FAA 135 Air Taxi, founded a DOT Part 380 Public Tour Operator, and a FAA 142 airline training school.  Presently, as founder of Metro Air Service, LLC, Art facilitates regional travel research, aircraft performance and costing, and business model analysis with the goal of matching profitable solutions to rural America's air travel needs.
Previously, in 1984, while serving as a Manager in United Airlines Flight Training Department, Art was an Instructor Pilot, Check Airman, FAA Designee, Training Manager and Safety Officer. In 1989, Capt. Ziccardi started his own consulting firm, Air Crew Resources, Inc. which later combined with Arnautical, Inc. where he served as President and CEO (1991-1999). Arnautical was a full service international FAA 142 airline training company, and aviation consulting firm. Arnautical alliances and customers included United Airlines, Continental Airlines, America West Airlines, Northwest Aerospace Training Company, Turkish Airlines, Royal Nepal, Condor/Sudflug Airlines, Asiana Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Western Pacific Airlines, United Arab Emirates, Israeli Aircraft Industries and the USAF Test Pilot School.

Contact Art at: artz@denverconsult.com

Captain Frederick W. "Rick" Brown

United Airlines 1969-2004

Chief pilot, Fleet Captain, Manager of Standards and Training, Director of Flight Safety, Accident Investigation Team, Training Check Airman, Line Check Airman, Simulator Instructor, FAA Designated Examiner, Manager of Pilot hiring, and Line Captain for United Airlines.

Aeronautical Training Center, Inc. (ATC) 1989-1998

Co-owner of ATC, the holding company for Air Crew Resources, ATC and Centennial Plato Testing Center. Denver, Colorado. ATC conducted international flight training, operational safety audits and Cockpit Resource Management Training for foreign governments and airlines. Customers included the Presidential fleet for Mexico, USSR charter division, Condor, Turkish Airlines, Royal Nepal, TACA and Asiana.

Contact Rick at: rickb@denverconsult.com

Joe Bühler
Mr. Bühler has been involved in travel and tourism since graduating from Business School in Zurich, Switzerland. Joe served as EVP, Business Development & Strategic Alliances at e-Vacations.com - a unit of Rail Europe Group - the first U.S. online provider of custom-designed vacation packages. Prior to that he was Director for Switzerland Tourism, the national destination marketing organization (DMO) for one of the top global tourism destinations. There he was in succession responsible for their operations in North America, the United Kingdom & Ireland, Canada and Japan & South East Asia. Previously he also worked in Japan and Switzerland for Kuoni Travel Inc. one of the largest European travel organizations.
He was elected Chairman of the market operations groups of the European Travel Commission (ETC) both in Japan and in the United States and also served as Vice Chairman of the Alliance of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA).

 Bernard Frelat
Bernard was chairman and CEO of White Plains, N.Y.-based Eurovacations.com , and served as president and CEO of Rail Europe Group. He was responsible for the extraordinary internal growth and acquisitions (DER, BritRail, Avanti Tours, EuroGroups, Business Travel Services etc) that catapaulted Rail Europe Group into a market-dominating position. Considered a travel visionary and entrepreneur, he led this SNCF/SwissRail owned company into the electronic age through development of unique and proprietary rail inventory and pricing systems, and was responsible for developing many of today's distinctive rail products. Bernard holds a law degree and is sought after as a speaker at leading travel industry symposiums.

Geof Cahoon
Geof has more than 20 years in the travel industry, including senior management positions with Orbit, Navigant, Reservations Services, Inc., Thor 24, and Korobra. He is a recognized contributor to many trade publications and programs and has extensive relationships in the electronic distribution community. Geof has experience in strategic/tactical analysis, planning; internet e-commerce, and business development. He has a thorough understanding of travel industry history and trends, both as an advisor, consultant and participant.

 Bruce Martin
Mr. Bruce Martin has over 25 years experience implementing Earned Value Management Systems (formerly Cost/Schedule Control Systems Criteria C/SCSC). Mr. Martin was an employee and team member of the C/SCSC implementation group for Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace from 1980 -1984. During that time he supported the successful validation of the MX program as well as the External Tank (NASA) and Ground Support Systems at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Mr. Martin became a consultant for Humphreys & Associates (H&A) in 1984. During his years with H&A Mr. Martin supported both R&D & Production validations as well as numerous Subsequent Application Reviews (SARs). He supported Lockheed Missile and Space Division, General Dynamics, Litton Data Systems, Rockwell, General Electric and numerous other contractors for DoD, DoE, and NASA.
Mr. Martin has also been a consultant with Performance Management Associates (PMA). While a consultant for PMA Mr. Martin has supported Bell Helicopter, Parker Hannifin, Honeywell, and CH2M.
Mr. Martin has broad experience with EVM and specializes in the area of material and manufacturing. He has supported the integration of EVM with MRP and Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems.

 Joe Kremer
Joe serves clients as Senior Consultant specializing in the broad, general areas of business development, marketing and corporate communications. He has performed on both client and consulting sides, having worked for or provided senior counsel to the travel industry, destination resorts, casino gaming and financial services industries. Other industry segments served include: professional educate, advertising, packaged goods, cable and over-the-air broadcasting and public utilities.

Specific disciplines have included: strategic planning, business development, startup, new product development, corporate identity, marketing research, planning and implementation, advertising and sales promotion, sales training, tracking and incentives, telemarketing, public and media relations, financial reporting, shareholder communications and SEC compliance, issues management and crisis communications.

Clients have included: Frontier Airlines, Snowmass Resort and Village, Town of Breckenridge, Breckenridge Resort Chamber, Breckenridge Music Festival, Century Casinos, Time Warner Cable, College for Financial Planning, Boise Cascade, Castle & Cooke, Public Service of Colorado

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