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Management
Sheri Leigh, Chairman and acting CEO Sheri Leigh, acting president of Enterprise Webs and founder of Cultural Travels (CT), is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley in Renaissance Studies. Ms. Leigh, a former travel agent created CT in 1998 as means of combining her love of art, history, literature and cultural pursuits with travel. Ms. Leigh began collaborating with Enterprise Webs in 1999, seeking database and development expertise that would help her add visionary features and capabilities to the CT web site. Since then, CT has seen traveler visits climb to an impressive average of 15-minutes per session, the number of its specialty tour operator listings has increased by more than 300% to over 1,100.. In April 2000, Enterprise Webs acquired Cultural Travels. Enterprise Webs will continue to develop the CT web site and related products and services, as well as seek equity funding earmarked for expansion of CT’s Web presence in North America and abroad.
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Kimberly
Scranton, Customer Service and Enterprise Webs has named Kim Scranton as Managing Director of its project to launch a Cultural Travels web site in Japan in addition to her responsibilities for developing Cultural Travels customer service desk. Ms. Scranton, a fluent speaker of Japanese, is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she majored in Asian History and minored in Japanese studies. Ms. Scranton originally came to Japan as part of the Jet Program, a government-sponsored grassroots program to introduce young foreigners to areas of the country that had not previously enjoyed much contact with outsiders. In her work there, she planned exchange programs for local residents, interpreted for high-level visiting officials, taught Japanese and English, and spoke before numerous civic groups regarding the status of American women. Later, Ms. Scranton became an English narrator for several documentaries produced by NHK, Japan’s largest television network. She also narrated promotional videos in English for Japanese tourism, and was an translator/interpreter for high-level business conferences and the mayor and senior staff of the city of Hiroshima.
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Patrick Totty, Larkspirit Editorial, Director
Totty is a business writer and former magazine and newsletter editor who started out to be a political scientist. But he found he had a way of making the obscure clear and the clear interesting -- in short, he wasn't suited to be a political scientist. Totty owns Larkspirit Editorial Services of Larkspur, CA, a business writing firm he founded in 1986 after a 13-year stint as a trade newspaper and magazine editor. Editorial and publishing dynamics are provided to Enterprise Web's Communications Director, Patrick Totty. His extensive 25-year publishing, writing and editorial experience balances Ms. Leigh's driving vision for Internet information delivery. Totty is also editorial director for e-publications like "The Cultured Traveler," "Sonoma Classics" and "Ask Dr. Vikki."
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Tony Valente, CBC Communications Corp., Director
CBC's Managing Director, Tony Valente, is a former U.S. Navy submariner who holds a degree in literature from Columbia University. Valente held three U.S. patents, products of three high-tech companies he founded in the 1960s, 70s and 80s: Quantum Industries (thin-layer and column chromatographic products); Telesonic Systems (milliwatt output AM radio devices for museum and national park site tours); American Gem Market System (international network trading). When he established American Gem Market System (AGMS) in1980 in Moraga, CA, Valente became an early pioneer of conducting commercial transactions over computer networks. AGMS was one of the first networks in the world to introduce the concepts of private channels and computer gateways. Its sophisticated user-oriented services pushed the communications and computer technologies of that time to their limits in deploying a commerce network that reached $100 million in volume at its peak.. |
