Northstar Travel Media LLC

Thomas Kemp became CEO of Northstar Travel Media in January 2009. Mr. Kemp has a unique combination of experience as a senior operating executive and private equity investor in business-to-business media. In 2008, he founded Oakstreet Media, a company formed to invest in and acquire lower-middle market business-to-business media and information companies. From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Kemp was a Managing Director at Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a leading private equity firm investing in the media and communications industry. Prior to VSS, he was the Chairman and CEO of Penton Media, one of the leading business-to-business media companies, from 1996 to 2004. Prior to Penton, Mr. Kemp was President and COO of Miller Freeman Inc, a market-leading business to-business media company headquartered in San Francisco. He has been a board member of several business media companies as well as industry associations, including American Business Media and BPA International. Mr. Kemp received his BA with honors from Amherst College. Tom lives with his family in New Canaan, Connecticut.

For more than 20 years, Arnie Weissmann has been involved in virtually every aspect of travel journalism, publishing and media. The creator of Weissmann Reports, he has won more than 30 national writing awards and he authored a best-selling travel textbook. Mr. Weissmann also was a pioneer on the web, creating the first core destination content for American Online (where he also wrote a travel column) and licensing content to Apple's e-world and dozens of other web sites, including those of Time Inc., CNN, Marriott International, the L.A. Times and Discovery Channel. His company also was contracted to create and run AT&T's business travel Web site. Weissmann Travel Reports was sold to Reed Elsevier in 1996, and Mr. Weissmann became Group Publisher at that time. He continued to run Weissmann, as well as STAR Service, Official Hotel Guide and a dozen OAG-branded publications in the U.K. In 1999, he took on the role of senior advisor for business development with the Cahners Travel Group, and in October 2001, he was appointed editor in chief of Travel Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.

Robert G. Sullivan, CTC, has 20 years of travel trade publishing experience. Mr. Sullivan joined Travel Weekly in the fall of 2000 and has been responsible for publishing matters related to Travel Weekly and its portfolio of products, including the launch of Travel Professional magazine, the official journal of the Travel Institute, and the Travel Weekly Leadership Forum programs. Prior to joining Northstar, Mr. Sullivan was VP and Group Publisher of the Miller Freeman Travel Group for seven years. At Miller Freeman, he was responsible for the strategic direction and publishing of Leisure Travel News, Business Travel News and Meeting News, as well as its travel trade show group. Before becoming VP and Group Publisher of the Miller Freeman Travel Group, Mr. Sullivan served as Publisher of Leisure Travel News for five years. His travel trade publishing career began at Ziff Davis in its training program. Mr. Sullivan lives in Darien, Connecticut, with his wife and five children.

With more than 20 years of experience in business-to-business publishing, Sheila Rice has developed a branded content licensing franchise with Northstar's existing digital data assets. The company's diverse content portfolio of products includes the largest worldwide hotel database, Weissmann Reports, STAR Service Online critical hotel reviews and Northstar's periodical news and feature magazine articles. Prior to her content licensing efforts, Ms. Rice was Vice President Publishing Sales of Travel Weekly, with responsibility for managing regional advertising sales directors, account directors and an inside sales support team. Before joining Northstar in 2000, Ms. Rice was Vice President of Electronic Development for Cahners Business Information (now Reed) for the Retail, Design, Building/Construction & Printing Group. She served as a liaison between business/publishing and technology as editorial and advertising cultures migrated from print-centric to media-neutral businesses. From 1998 to 2000, Ms. Rice was founding Publisher of Digital Television magazine, a sister publication of Broadcasting & Cable magazine at Cahners, responsible for business, advertising and editorial direction. Ms. Rice was also previously Associate Publisher of TWICE (This Week in Consumer Electronics) magazine and Advertising Director of Home Textiles Today. She started her publishing career at Fairchild Publications with HFD-Retailing Home Furnishings. She lives in New York City with her two children.

Beth Koesser manages operations at Northstar's Glen Ellyn, Illinois, office and oversees the software development, database administration and hotel research teams. As Director of Database Content, she has played a key role in the development of the Northstar corporate content strategy. She has built a world-class proprietary content management system for the largest hotel, destination and security database worldwide. Ms. Koesser began her career with Northstar as a Software Developer in 1981 and has held various technology positions throughout the past 20-plus years, including Senior Project Leader and Software Development Manager. Ms. Koesser received her BS degree in Computer Science & Business Administration from Northern Illinois University in 1989. She lives in Northern Illinois with her husband and two daughters.

Rich Mastropietro leads the Helpdesk, Technical Support, Network Engineering and Publishing Systems Support areas at Northstar. He has been with the company since January 2000, when he was hired as a Network Engineer. He has more than 12 years' experience in the computer networking and technical support fields. Prior to joining Northstar, Mr. Mastropietro worked as a Systems Administrator for International Paper in Montvale, New Jersey, and as an Instrumentation and Controls Engineer at the Indian Point 3 Nuclear Power Plant in Buchanan, New York. Mr. Mastropietro received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College in 1992. He lives in Orange County, New York, with his wife and two daughters.

Robert Brai manages purchasing and operations of paper, prepress, printing and distribution for all Northstar publications. Since joining the company in 1991, he has held various positions, including controller for the Directories Group and Business Manager Operations for the combined OAG and Reed Travel Group while based in Chicago. Mr. Brai has been instrumental in bringing prepress functions in-house, upgrading the publishing systems and initiating the offering of digital magazines. Prior to joining Northstar, he was with Deak International (now Thomas Cook) as controller and operations manager for its precious metal brokerage business. He also previously was with Whitney Communications (publisher of Interior Design and The Hockey News) as an accountant. He received a BS in Accounting from Clarkson University. Mr. Brai is an avid ice hockey player and plays tournaments in Lake Placid, Montreal, Las Vegas and Tampa Bay. He lives in Freehold, New Jersey, with his son, Zachary.