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Shannon Knapp is a President & Chief Executive Officer at LEADING HOTELS OF THE WORLD and is based in New York. She has worked as VP:Marketing at American Express Travel Relate; Senior VP/Chief Mktg Officer at LEADING HOTELS OF THE WORLD; and Vice President Marketing, American Express Travel & Lifestyle Services at AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. Shannon studied at Colgate University between 1994 and 1998.

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.