		Mark Murphy, President/CEO Performance Media Group, LLC is lead by Co-Founder and President/CEO Mark Murphy. Mark has been a travel publishing executive since 1991 and led the team at Travel Agent magazine from 1993 to 2000, when he left as Publisher. In spite of the havoc wreaked by the Internet, commission cuts, and terrorism on traditional travel publishers, Performance Media Group, LLC has grown dramatically since its launch in March 2002. The company now includes ModernAgent.com and more than a half dozen web businesses, print publications including Agent@Home magazine and Vacation Agent magazine, and a virtual trade show business called Virtual Travel Events. “By focusing on helping suppliers reach the individual agent and measure their marketing results, we have been able to grow as our clients have grown”, says Murphy.

		Scott Whitley, Vice President, Sales & Marketing Scott has a diverse background in travel trade publishing, sales, product development and online travel marketing. Scott is currently the Associate Publisher of Agent@Home magazine, the hottest travel magazine in the travel publishing space. Previous to Performance Media Group, Scott was the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at SMART Travel Technologies. There Scott was responsible for successfully conceptualizing, developing and administering two of the industry’s top business-to-business web sites at that time.

		James Shillinglaw, Editor-in-Chief James Shillinglaw, CTC, a veteran travel editor and journalist, Editor-in-Chief of ModernAgent's Travel Pulse and Agent@Home magazine. Prior to joining Performance Media Group, Shillinglaw was Editor-in-Chief of New York-based Travel Agent magazine, a newsweekly that provided news analysis, features and destination reports to 45,000 travel agents. Before being named Editor-in-Chief, Shillinglaw served as Editor, Executive Editor, News Director and Senior Story Editor during his nearly 14 years with the magazine.

		Neil Strickland, Publisher of ModernAgent Neil has an extensive travel industry background from Director of Sales & Marketing for several well-known Florida resort companies and Vice President for a meeting planning company. For the past 13 years he has been promoted to different positions within Reed Travel Group & Travel Weekly; leaving the latter as Director of Custom Publishing. This position offered him the opportunity to travel to many countries and develop creative marketing solutions for governments (and CVB's), cruise lines, airlines, and hotel companies.

		James Ruggia, Executive Editor, Destinations James Ruggia is a veteran travel journalist and writer with 17 years of experience covering destinations worldwide. As a past winner of the Pacific Asia Travel Association’s journalist of the year award, he is widely considered the dean of travel trade writers covering the Pacific Asia region. He has written extensively about such top destinations as Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Tahiti, Thailand, and many more.

		Kate Rice, Executive Editor, Technology Kate Rice has been covering travel for 20 years for both trade and consumer publications. She's been specializing in travel technology for the past decade, covering the rise of the internet and its transformation of travel retailing. She's written about consumer and business travel, covered hotels, airlines, family travel, adventure travel and Europe. A former ski bum, she wrote Skiing, the latest Life Style course offered by The Travel Institute.

		Theresa Norton Masek, Editor-in-Chief of Vacation Agent Magazine Theresa Norton Masek, a veteran cruise journalist, is the newest member of the Performance Media Group team. Masek spent the last 11 years with the TravelAge publications, first in Chicago and then in Los Angeles, where she currently resides. While with that publication, she covered the cruise industry exclusively for almost nine years and was responsible for reporting breaking news, writing trend pieces of interest to travel agents, and overseeing a monthly Cruise Guide supplement that included ship profiles, executive interviews and news bites. Masek has received numerous awards over the years, including first-place in travel trade writing for two consecutive years from the North American Travel Journalists Association and also a second place for photojournalism from the Midwest Travel Writing Association. She has been an active member of the Society of American Travel Writers since 1997.

		Jane Jamison, Editorial Director, Custom Publishing Jane Jamison is the custom publishing editorial director for Performance Media Group and a 28 year veteran of travel trade publishing. For the past 13 years, Jane has managed all editorial aspects of the custom publishing and training operation for Northstar Travel Media, which includes Travel Weekly, Meetings and Conventions and Travel Age publications. In April of 2005, Jane joined forces with the Performance Media Group to expand the value proposition for destinations and suppliers interested in training travel agents on their products.

		Stacey Zable, Executive Editor, Custom Publishing Stacey Zable has 18 years experience writing for the travel trade, 15 in Custom Publishing at Travel Agent magazine. Zable has created countless educational programs and advertorial projects on every aspect of the travel industry. She has written about travel for both trade and consumer publications, including most destinations around the world as well as cruises, airlines, tours, car rentals, hotels, spas, honeymoons and family travel. She is a winner of numerous Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) Golden Bell and Adrian Awards for her Custom Publishing work.