Werner brings over 35 years of experience in the travel industry. Prior to Fareportal, Werner was the CEO of OneTravel.com, a leading online travel agency, VP of Business Development at Lufthansa Systems, Director of Marketing and Sales North America at CityBird Airlines, General Manager North America at Swissair’s charter division Balair/CTA and Director Operations at Travac Tours and Charters.

Brian M. Hand is a partner in the law firm of Nordlicht & Hand and has represented Fareportal as corporate counsel since its inception. Mr. Hand has over 20 years experience representing public and private companies, both domestic and international, in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, healthcare, travel, publishing and consumer services. His areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, secured finance, corporate governance, technology licensing, research and development collaborations, executive employment issues and other corporate and commercial matters. Mr. Hand is a member of the State Bar of New York and the Business, International and Science and Technology Law sections of the American Bar Association. Mr. Hand has a J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law, where he was a member of the Urban Law Review, and a B.A. in Political Science from Queens College of the City University of New York.

Manaker began his career as a Partner in the New York Law firm of Birmbaum, Manaker and Acquilio, P.C. and as an Assistant Professor, Syracuse College of Law. In the mid eighties Mr. Manaker entered the Travel industry as the Co- Founder and President of BTI Americas and then as Co-President of WorldTravel BTI (now called BCD Travel). He has worked with BCD N.V., a Dutch family-owned company founded by John A. Fentener van Vlissingen in 1975, which is the parent company of BCD Travel. BCD has more than 12,000 employees, working in 90 countries (in North and South America, Asia and in Europe) and has generated U.S.$ 12 billion in global sales in 2007.Mr. Manaker acted as President of Acquisitions for BCD Travel till the summer of 2007; when he became an outside consultant for BCD. Currently Mr. Manaker runs a private equity fund, REM Investments LLC, focusing on the travel industry, manufacturing and financial services sectors. Mr. Manaker holds a Doctorate of Law; Syracuse College of Law, New York, USA and a Masters Mechanical Engineering; Syracuse University, New York, USA.

Steven Cooperberg is a tax partner with a regional Certified Public Accounting firm. Mr. Cooperberg has over 20 years experience in public accounting providing tax planning and tax advisory services to a diverse clientele including clients in the travel and travel related spectrum. His areas of practice includes domestic and international tax planning, multi-state tax advisory service, working with closely-held multi-generational businesses and their corresponding principles, as well as representing clients involving federal and state tax controversies. Mr. Cooperberg has extensive experience with start-up entities as well as with established, mature companies. Prior to his work in public accounting, Mr. Cooperberg was a large case field agent with the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Cooperberg is a Certified Public Accountant in NYS and received a BS Degree in Accounting and a Master’s Degree in Taxation from Pace University.

Michael Stacy is CEO of ID90 Travel, whose web-based SaaS platform fully automates airline employee space-available travel for carriers across the globe. In addition to automating the shopping and booking process for space-available travel, ID90 Travel is the first company in the space to provide airline employees the ability to easily purchase discounted hotels, rental cars, and cruises online or via their industry-leading mobile application. During his tenure at ID90 Travel, Michael has raised venture capital financing and brought the company to first-time profitability.

Michael has been a leader in online technology since the late 90s, when he was hired in a marketing role in the very early stages of the development of Travelocity.com. He rose to become SVP of Marketing while helping the company go public and through its purchase by Sabre Holdings. He also served as president of Cheaptickets.com, where he led the company to first-time profitability and helped parent company Cendant complete the acquisition of Orbitz.com and the consolidation of cheaptickets.com into the Orbitz family of brands. Prior to that, he was SVP of marketing at Clear Channel Entertainment (now called Live Nation). Before joining ID90, Michael served as CEO of Groople.com, an online startup company devoted to group travel.

Michael serves on the board of the non-profit African Food and Peace Foundation, which is a trailblazing philanthropic community investing in groundbreaking education for women and girls in Uganda.

Scott Alvis is Founder and Executive Editor at NEXT Travel Stream, the travel industry’s first live streaming news and data service. NEXT produces video news and data streams each week related to airlines, online travel agencies, hospitality, travel technology, and many other travel topics. Prior to NEXT, Scott served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Amadeus North America, leading product marketing, marketing communication, market research, public relations and business planning for Amadeus‘ distribution, airline IT and new business efforts in the U.S. and Canada. A travel industry veteran, Scott previously held several positions at Sabre Holdings, including the president and general manager of SynXis, a technology provider to the hospitality industry. As Sabre’s senior vice president of enterprise marketing, he led its corporate strategic planning, pricing, market research, usability lab and innovation disciplines. Scott holds an MBA with honors from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and BA in economics from Duke University.