Kelly has over ten years of experience developing online travel applications for leading travel provides including Sabre, Expedia, GetThere, United Airlines, Tickets.com and Equant. He is a travel technology expert, pioneering a number of innovations for the online travel industry. He developed the initial SABRE Web Reservation system and hosting services for travel agencies. He was involved with the development of a dynamic tour package application working in conjunction with Expedia. Later he took an early employee position with GetThere and worked on developing the leisure and airline product strategies. Prior to LeisureLink, Kelly co-founded Tripeze.com, one of the leading online travel services in Canada, which was acquired by Sears. Kelly is responsible for driving the strategic vision for the company as well as forging key distribution and inventory supplier partnerships. Kelly is also the Founder of LeisureLink one of the leading aggregator’s of vacation rentals worldwide providing, for the first time, a comprehensive source for both travel agents and consumers to book vacation rentals in real-time. LeisureLink recently received a five Million dollar investment from Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures; two of the leading venture capital companies in southern California. Kelly has a combined bachelor of Commerce and Sciences degree from the University of British Columbia.
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