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Travopoly Travel Names Jim Menge as President

Friday, 26 September 2014 11:00 AM

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PLANO, TEXAS / ACCESSWIRE / September 26, 2014 / Travopoly Travel, LLC., announced today that Jim Menge has been named Travopoly's new President.

Menge will take over the majority of operations and continuation of building both product and value propositions as well as overseeing the growing team of managers, employees and contractors.

"After ten years of an incredible journey trying to realize a dream, I am incredibly humbled to have someone at the helm of operations as gifted, talented and experienced as Jim" said Robert Oblon, Travopoly's creator and former President. "His vision and passion for creating travel experiences for our members will help propel Travopoly into its next stage of growth and undoubtedly help achieve the success of our collective goals."

 Prior to joining Travopoly, Menge was the Chief Marketing Officer of SILVERCAR, Inc. the Audi-exclusive car rental company as well as other diverse travel companies such as VIAJANET, SILVERRAIL and most notably VIRTUOSO where he was the Executive Vice President of Member Development. Menge was the Evangelist and Vice President of Technology Business Development at SABRE, one of the world's largest travel companies, where the outcome of his development initiatives resulted in major travel agency efficiencies and over US$100m in cost savings. In the mid to late 1990's, Menge led the American Airlines Technology Product Marketing team, bringing Internet technologies to their global travel agency community. 

"Jim's 30 plus years in the travel industry and experience in over 90 countries related to vacation experiences and product development puts him at the highest echelon of travel executives in the world," Oblon continues. "We couldn't be more excited." 

As President, Menge will be responsible for Travopoly's new product "Vacationars", a new way combining a vacation with top speaker seminars and educational content. Travopoly has already launched its first vacation-seminar, The Happiness Vacationar https://www.thehappinessvacationar.com, featuring Positive Psychologist Shawn Achor and "The Pursuit of Happyness" author Chris Gardner. Travopoly plans on releasing a full calendar of Vacationars for 2015 in the next 30-45 days. 

About Travopoly Travel

Travopoly operates a free subscription-based, by invitation only travel portal, and is expanding its offerings through strategic acquisitions. As a publicly traded company, Travopoly is acquiring profitable, revenue-generating agencies and tour operators, and offering the best discounts and unique benefits to its members. Product offerings like "Vacation Financing," are accessible to registered users who log in to the consumer-driven online travel site at www.travopoly.com.

 This press release contains "forward-looking" statements that are based on present circumstances and on Travopoly's predictions with respect to events that have not occurred, that may not occur, or that may occur with different consequences and timing than those now assumed or anticipated. Such forward-looking statements, including any statements of the plans and objectives of management for future operations, are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from the events or results described in the forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this release. Management does not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to update any forward-looking statements. Readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.

For further information and inquiries:

Travopoly Travel, LLC

[email protected]

Tel: 972 608-4300 

SOURCE: Travopoly Travel, LLC  

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