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Linda Boekelheide
Customer Service
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Linda's one of the cheerful voices on the other end of the phone when you call our 800 number. She's been with TheBigDay almost since its inception, taking great care of all of our wedding couples and their guests. | | |
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| | Vicki Parker
Customer Service
Vicki is our front line in customer service. There is nothing she likes better than for people to get off the phone feeling happy and taken care of. |
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Farrah Aversano
Travel Consultant
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Farrah is from the fabulous suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. She and her husband have two beautiful daughters who keep her quite busy!
Farrah loves being a travel agent and loves working with people to plan their honeymoons and anniversary trips. She loves the Caribbean, but is hooked on the Riviera Maya! It's the new hotspot! She specializes in the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii & the South Pacific! She'll even do cruises and of course Vegas too! | | |
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| | Casey Gamba
Travel Specialist
Casey, infected with an incurable travel bug for Africa, started Mango African Safaris with her best friend and business partner Teresa Isabelle.
They have worked and traveled with many different safari companies, and built strong relationships in order to offer clients world-class safari and luxurious resort experiences. Their adventurous spirits led them to Africa. |
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Aruna Halpin
Travel Specialist
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Aruna has been an employee of TheBigDay since May 2005 with a focus on South Pacific honeymoon packages. She specializes in itineraries in South Pacific, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Born and raised in Fiji Islands, Aruna traveled extensively in the South Pacific before she came to the United States. She is an avid reader and enthusiastic traveler. | | |
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| | Teresa Isabelle
Travel Specialist
Teresa started Mango African Safaris with her best friend and business partner Casey Gamba.
Together, they have been guiding safaris for the last eight years. Teresa and Casey have explored every possible country in Eastern and Southern Africa, as well as the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius, Seychelles, and the Maldives. This on-the-ground experience has built strong relationships and made them excellent and knowledgeable escorts. |
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Patti Polluconi
Destination Specialist
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Patti has been specializing in tropical destinations and honeymoons for over 15 years. She's very passionate about travel, and has been to most of the Caribbean islands, Tahiti, Fiji, Hawaii, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Thailand, England and Spain. She likes to provide her clients with as much first-hand knowledge as possible so they will have the most memorable, worry-free experience. | | |
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| | David Seeberger
Travel Specialist
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David came to us in March 2005, bringing a wealth of experience on the wholesale as well as the retail side of travel. His main passion is helping arrange wonderful sun & sand vacations to areas such as Hawaii, Mexico and the Caribbean. Be sure to ask him about his recent European journeys as well...and about meeting Gavin McLeod (aka Captain Stubing, pictured with David in Las Vegas). |
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Michelle Ziettlow
Travel Specialist
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Michelle is one of TheBigDay Travel Specialists with expertise in the South Pacific. She has 15 years of experience in the travel business and has visited over 25 countries. Her most recent trip was to Tahiti, where she visited 5 beautiful islands.
Michelle enjoys sharing her knowledge and reliving her travels by helping TheBigDay customers plan their vacation or honeymoons. | | |
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| | Courtney S. Ries
Marketing Manager
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Courtney has a B.Sc. in Journalism from Northwestern University but considers her round-the-world trip through Western Europe, SE Asia and the South Pacific to be much more educational (and less expensive).
In 2006, she spent two months working in South and East Africa and two months traipsing through Eastern Europe. In 2007, she hopes to travel to countries where "beach" and "sun" are featured prominently in the advertising. |
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Patti Cardona
Accounting
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Patti has been a member of TheBigDay team since early in 2005. She is the person behind the dollars and cents of the business. | | |
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| | Michael Cottam
CTO, Board member & co-founder
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Michael and Terry started TheBigDay back in 2001 in Terry's garage. Michael's role is a combination of technology and business development. He's an avid traveler, and recently also became a Big Day customer as well, marrying Melinda in the summer of 2005. In his spare time, Michael enjoys photography, racing motorcycles, and working on interesting and unusual cars. |
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Larry Custer
Advisor & co-founder
Larry is one of our original founders. A business management consultant and CPA, Larry works as an advisor to our operations team. Larry's also an avid traveller--he and his wife Marnie have been to Tahiti, Europe, and Africa (here they are at Xigera Camp, Botswana). | | |
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| | Terry Beard
Chairman of the Board & co-founder
Terry and Michael started TheBigDay.com in Terry's garage. While Michael was putting together the initial website, Terry found the other key people we needed to turn our dream into the company it is today. |
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Dan Skerritt
Board Member & co-founder
Dan's legal background has been key to getting our company properly organized and make the transition from a "garage operation" to a solid business. | | |
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| | Phil Stevens
Board Member & co-founder
Phil brought his many years in marketing and advertising to bear on our original gift registry idea, and focused us in on honeymoons. Like Terry, Phil has also been instrumental in finding key people for our team and for us to partner with. |
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