Paolo Boni joined VFM in October 2001 and is responsible for setting the Company’s vision and strategic direction, as well as evangelizing VFM’s unique value proposition to the world. Under Paolo’s leadership, VFM has become the leading provider of rich media content production and distribution solutions to the hotel and travel industry, with over 10,000 hotels and tens of thousands of travel and travel related website partners worldwide. Paolo is a frequent public speaker and panelist at major travel conferences on subjects relating to online travel marketing and rich media in travel. Paolo is a former Partner with Davies, Ward & Beck (now, Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP), a leading Canadian business law firm, practicing primarily in the areas of securities and corporate law with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions. Paolo holds an LL.B. from OsgoodeHallLawSchool (1993) and a B.A. Economics from McGillUniversity (1989).
Victor Robison - Chief Technology Officer
Victor Robison joined VFM Interactive in January 2005 and oversees the development of VFM’s new interactive content technologies and client service offerings. Victor also brings a wealth of experience in the network processing and security technology fields. As the former site manager for Intel of Canada’s Network Processor Software Infrastructure Team, Victor has overseen the development of highly scalable multi-gigabit network processing firmware. Victor was a pioneer in the field of Virtual Private Networks (VPN’s) and was co-designer of the first commercial VPN in partnership with Cisco Systems. Victor is also the inventor of the SST network encryption protocol, the world’s largest proprietary VPN encryption system deployed to date, and has co-authored patents pending in the field of network management. Victor holds a B.S. in Computer Science from San JoseStateUniversity (1988). Victor is the Chair of HTNG’s (Hotel Technology Next Generation) Distribution Content Management Working Group and is an active contributor to HEDNA (Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association) and OTA (Open Travel Alliance).
John McAuliffe - Chief Marketing Officer
John McAuliffe joined VFM in August 2008 after a successful tenure, as Chief Marketing Officer, of a Silicon Valley technology firm where he implemented a web based demand generation program and helped turn a stagnant company with limited revenues into a sales and marketing innovation company that experienced significant growth and profitability. As a 20+ year marketing veteran John is a professional with hands on experience in leading market-driven strategies for disruptive technologies. John was the President and COO of a mid-size Canadian advertising agency which he transformed from a provider of production and creative services to a professional services firm focused on delivering integrated communications consistent with its clients’ brands. John is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and has taken post graduate studies in Strategic Marketing Management at University of Toronto and Harvard University.
Mark Charlinski - Vice President, Sales and Business Development
Mark Charlinski joined VFM in September 2005 and as VP of Sales and Business Development is responsible for securing VFM’s business partnerships, helping to significantly grow VFM’s distribution network and content views. Mark brings a broad spectrum of experience to VFM with many years in areas such as sales, business development, venture capital, product development, content and channel management, and financial planning. Prior to joining VFM, Mark held numerous positions within Bell Canada over a 12 year period. Most recently, Mark was a Senior Marketing Consultant for BellCanada and developed payment solutions that allowed Bell to sell outside of the traditional telecom business. Prior to that, Mark was part of the venture capital arm of Bell Mobility where he was responsible for evaluating company business plans and making investments in companies that complemented Bell Mobility’s business strategy. During his time with Bell, Mark was also responsible for launching the Blackberry service for Bell Mobility.
Philip Jones C.A. - Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Administration
Philip Jones joined VFM Interactive in October 2007 and is responsible for overseeing all financial and administrative aspects of the company with a primary emphasis on financial planning, forecasting, analysis and reporting in order to support VFM’s growth initiatives. Philip is a Chartered Accountant with 11 years of public accounting (big 4 firm) and industry experience having worked for large multi-national corporations as well as high growth technology companies. Immediately prior to joining VFM, Philip was the CFO of a tech company where he was successful in raising growth capital resulting in the company being named one of Canada’s 50 fastest growing technology companies for 2006. In addition to being a Chartered Accountant, Philip holds a B.A. in Economics (Honours) from the University of Western Ontario.
John McAuliffe joined VFM in August 2008 after a successful tenure, as Chief Marketing Officer, of a Silicon Valley technology firm where he implemented a web based demand generation program and helped turn a stagnant company with limited revenues into a sales and marketing innovation company that experienced significant growth and profitability. As a 20+ year marketing veteran John is a professional with hands on experience in leading market-driven strategies for disruptive technologies. John was the President and COO of a mid-size Canadian advertising agency which he transformed from a provider of production and creative services to a professional services firm focused on delivering integrated communications consistent with its clients’ brands. John is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and has taken post graduate studies in Strategic Marketing Management at University of Toronto and Harvard University.
Philip Jones joined VFM Interactive in October 2007 and is responsible for overseeing all financial and administrative aspects of the company with a primary emphasis on financial planning, forecasting, analysis and reporting in order to support VFM’s growth initiatives. Philip is a Chartered Accountant with 11 years of public accounting (big 4 firm) and industry experience having worked for large multi-national corporations as well as high growth technology companies. Immediately prior to joining VFM, Philip was the CFO of a tech company where he was successful in raising growth capital resulting in the company being named one of