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Caryn Smith, Chief Financial Officer
Caryn Smith’s experience in finance operational leadership, private equity and business planning extends more than twenty years. Her focus is forming and expanding your businesses through finance and business planning, capital development and exit support and financial operations. This focus is complemented by business development, sales and marketing experience. Caryn blends information and insight to capitalize on emerging trends, improved business models and new technologies. Most recently, she has consulted in a variety of industries including travel distribution and technology, airline, tour operator, sustainable travel, health and wellness, publishing, e-commerce currency management and electronic data discovery.

Previously, Caryn was CFO and VP of Strategic Planning for Travelweb LLC, an Internet startup formed by the travel industry’s top five hotel chains to distribute hotel rooms on the Internet. As an initial member of the management team, she played a key role in building the business to $125 million in sales and selling it in 2004. Before joining Travelweb, Caryn focused on travel and leisure investments for The Destination Group, a private equity firm emphasizing the “Quality Living” segment. From 1994 to 2000, she held a variety of product development, strategy and planning positions with AMR Corporation, culminating in Director of Marketing for Sabre Inc.’s $1 billion information technology business.

Caryn also helped launch Argosy Software, joining the startup team as VP Marketing and Sales to deliver a line of Macintosh-DOS connectivity software. She also worked as assistant treasurer for Swiss Bank Corporation. Her international experience is in Canada, the UK, the European Union and the Middle East. Caryn earned her BA in Economics at Mount Holyoke College, and her Masters in Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.