Tourico Holidays CEO and leadership

Uri Argov founded Tourico Holidays with his wife, Miriam, in July 1994. Under his direction, Tourico Holidays was selected three times by INC Magazine as one of the Top 500 fastest growing companies. In 2002, together with Mr. Oren Hadar, Argov founded Travel Global Systems (TGS); a technology company that develops state-of-the-art solutions for travel operations, revenue management, data mining and reservation systems. Uri led the merger of Tourico Holidays, TGS and Last Minute Travel in 2004 to create Travel Holdings Inc. In addition to leading the company, Uri is personally involved with several charities that assist children with terminal diseases, among them Give Kids The World and LEV. Prior to arriving in the U.S., Uri was a charter pilot as well as a managing executive in Tourico Travel & Tours, which was one of the largest travel companies in Israel. Uri received his B.S. in Geology and Computer Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a lead singer of a folk band and a commercial pilot with more than 3,000 flight hours.

Michael McIntyre, our Chief Financial Officer as of 2014, joined Travel Holdings in 2009. Prior to joining Travel Holdings, Mr. McIntyre was Chief Financial Officer of Kuykendall Gardner Risk & Insurance and worked in public accounting at KPMG in the financial services industry. Mr. McIntyre is a graduate of Wake Forest University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in information systems and master’s degree in accounting. He is a certified public accountant.

Haim Zoarets is a Chief Information Officer at Tourico Holidays and is based in Fl Area, Altamonte Springs, Florida.

Wendy E. Friedberg is a Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Tourico Holidays and is based in United States.

Uri Argov founded Tourico Holidays with his wife, Miriam, in July 1994. Under his direction, Tourico Holidays was selected three times by INC Magazine as one of the Top 500 fastest growing companies. In 2002, together with Mr. Oren Hadar, Argov founded Travel Global Systems (TGS); a technology company that develops state-of-the-art solutions for travel operations, revenue management, data mining and reservation systems. Uri led the merger of Tourico Holidays, TGS and Last Minute Travel in 2004 to create Travel Holdings Inc. In addition to leading the company, Uri is personally involved with several charities that assist children with terminal diseases, among them Give Kids The World and LEV. Prior to arriving in the U.S., Uri was a charter pilot as well as a managing executive in Tourico Travel & Tours, which was one of the largest travel companies in Israel. Uri received his B.S. in Geology and Computer Science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a lead singer of a folk band and a commercial pilot with more than 3,000 flight hours.