Kelly Tompkins

Current

Chairman & Founder at AdventureLink Inc.

Past

President & Founder at LeisureLink Inc.
Co-Founder & Acting CTO at Tripeze / Sears Travel
Consultant at Tickets.com

Leisure Product Director at GetThere
Consultant at Jetset Tours Australia
Leisure Product Director at Internet Travel Network

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Education

University of British Columbia

Recommended

10 people have recommended Kelly

Connections

272 connections

Industry

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Websites

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Kelly Tompkins’s Summary

My professional background is in the field of online travel and technology automation. I have followed an entrepreneurial path and have been involved with several successful startups including: Sabre WebReservations, GetThere, Tickets.com, Tripeze (Sears Travel), LeisureLink and now AdventureLink.

Kelly Tompkins’s Specialties:

I specialize in the development of travel technology related companies. My latest venture, AdventureLink provides a centralized reservation transaction platform for the adventure travel industry.

Kelly Tompkins’s Experience

Chairman & Founder

AdventureLink Inc.

(Privately Held; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

AdventureLink is the first global distribution and reservation network for the adventure travel industry. Our system provides travel agents and consumers with the ability to plan and book the perfect adventure trip for any activity anywhere in the world!
President & Founder

LeisureLink Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Hospitality industry)

May 2002 — September 2006 (4 years 5 months)

As President & Founder of LeisureLink, I was responsible for the formation of the company, establishing strategic distribution partnerships and overseeing the technology implementation. LeisureLink pioneered direct connect interfaces to the GDSs (Sabre, Worldspan & Galileo) which now gives the vacation rental industry the same global reach that was previously the exclusive domain of large hotel chains.
Co-Founder & Acting CTO

Tripeze / Sears Travel

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

May 1999 — October 2001 (2 years 6 months)

Co-Founded the company with the goal of creating an online travel service specifically for the Canadian market. The company grew rapidly and was later acquired by Sears Canada. I was the acting CTO for the company in the initial formation of the venture.
Consultant

Tickets.com

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

July 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 2 months)

I was hired by Tickets.com to diret development of an integrated event ticketing and travel package booking offering. The company later merged with Advantix and went public.
Leisure Product Director

GetThere

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; TSG; Internet industry)

July 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 3 months)

I joined GetThere (Internet Travel Network) relatively early and was responsible for expanding the leisure product strategy. As a small company, opportunity came knocking and the company decided to re-focus from expanding the leisure product to focusing on developing an airline booking system. I then assisted in developing the United Airlines booking system including a yield management system called EFares.
Consultant

Jetset Tours Australia

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

January 1998 — January 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Jetset had developed a very interesting dynamic package booking engine and partnered with Expedia at the time to deploy the capabilty for consumers to design their own custom vacation packages. I worked as a consultant to guide the company through the intial product development stages.
Leisure Product Director

Internet Travel Network

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year)