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Executive Team

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• Mike Kistner - Pegasus Solutions Chief Executive Officer

  Mike Kistner is the chief executive officer of Pegasus Solutions, a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors. In his position, he is responsible for the company’s daily operations, technology and shared services as well as the company’s reservation and distribution service line.

  Kistner joined Pegasus from Best Western International, Inc., where he was chief information officer and senior vice president of distribution, responsible for worldwide systems development and management. Before joining Best Western, Kistner was a senior vice president at Cendant Corp., where he implemented the largest-ever hotel technology roll-out. Previously, Kistner worked for Super 8 Motels where he was executive vice president of operations, heading IT, reservations, corporate travel, guest service, convention planning, corporate and franchise insurance and facilities management. He also was vice president for management information systems and reservations at HFS Inc.

  Kistner holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting and information systems from Northern State University, Aberdeen, S.D., and a master of science degree in information systems from Colorado State University. He is the past chairman and current member of the e-commerce committee of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. From 2000 to 2005, he served as chairman of the Open Travel Alliance (OTA) and has been recognized as one of the leading CIOs in the hospitality industry.

• Mark Peacock - Chief Information Officer

  Mark Peacock is chief information officer of Pegasus Solutions, the global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors. In this role, Peacock is responsible for the architecture, design, development, implementation and delivery of Pegasus’ technology solutions. He was pivotal in the development and successful launch of Pegasus’ RezView Mobile and RezView Internet Booking Engine (IBE) products, and served as a member of the IT leadership team recognized with the CIO 100, InformationWeek 500 and InfoWorld Top 100.

  Peacock has more than 20 years of experience helping companies drive efficiency and innovation in information technology (IT) products and services. Prior to Pegasus, he ran the IT Effectiveness practice at Archstone Consulting, a strategy and operations consulting firm he helped found in 2003. Before Archstone, Peacock was a Partner with Deloitte Consulting, where he helped create and run the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Practice. He also created and led Roundarch, a joint venture between Deloitte and WPP Group, established to deliver complete e-business solutions.

  Peacock began his career with ROLM Corporation, an industry leader in call center technology, holding finance and operational positions. He also held product marketing positions with FMC Corporation’s specialty chemical group.

  Peacock received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

• Marcie Hyder - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President

  Marcie Hyder brings 18 years of strong finance experience to her role as chief financial officer and executive vice president for Pegasus Solutions. She is responsible for all finance, corporate accounting and compliance functions, managing a team of more than 50 employees worldwide.

  Hyder has served Pegasus for 10 years, most recently as vice president and controller. During her tenure at Pegasus, she has played key roles in several financial and strategic transactions including equity and debt offerings before Pegasus went private in 2006, debt restructure and acquisitions. Hyder has 18 years’ experience with a strong finance background. Before joining Pegasus, Hyder served as the director of financial reporting and investor relations for Builders FirstSource, where she implemented an investor relations program as well as internal controls over the financial reporting process. Hyder has prior experience with Pegasus, during which she was director of investor relations and manager of Securities and Exchange Commission reporting. She also previously served as a senior financial reporting analyst for Brinker International, and began her career in assurance services at KPMG.

  She is a certified public accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Texas A&M University. Hyder is based in Pegasus’ Dallas office.

• David Millili - Chief Web Officer, Pegasus Solutions/CEO, Open Hospitality

  David Millili is chief web officer of Pegasus Solutions and chief executive officer of Open Hospitality®, a Pegasus Solutions company. In this dual role, Millili has responsibility for Pegasus’ complete online presence, as well as Open Hospitality’s industry-leading internet marketing services.

  Prior to joining Pegasus, Millili founded and led Open Hospitality to become a recognized industry leader in providing hotel internet marketing services, including design, website development and hosting, mobile platforms, online search and marketing.

  Millili has more than 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry. As a former hotel general manager, he has practical experience in all aspects of hotel operations and management. As the GM of two New York Times Square hotels (the Mayfair New York and the Belvedere Hotel), his experiences range from managing pre-opening operations to spearheading budgets in excess of $5 million annually. As co-founder of Timeless Hospitality, Millili was directly responsible for the successful launch of a startup company that generated profits within six months of launch, generated over $20 million in revenues for hotel clients in 2002 and raised $1.5 million in venture capital funds. Timeless Hospitality provided hotels with internet reservations, marketing and management products and was one of the first e-commerce platforms developed for the exclusive purpose of generating web reservations for independent hotels.

  Millili currently teaches a course on distribution at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies at the Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management.

• Christopher Klimko - Senior Vice President & General Counsel Pegasus Solutions, Inc.

  Chris Klimko serves as senior vice president and general counsel of Pegasus Solutions, Inc., a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors.

  Klimko’s responsibilities as senior vice president include participation on the executive management team developing strategies and overseeing Pegasus’ operations. As general counsel, Klimko oversees all legal aspects of the company’s operations. Specific areas of involvement include mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, employment law, intellectual property, legal counsel on internal and external communications, litigation management and oversight, creation of and compliance with policies (domestic and international), contracts and other transactional review.

  Klimko joined Pegasus in 2001 as associate general counsel, and was promoted in 2003 to senior associate counsel. Before joining Pegasus, Klimko served as general counsel for start-up Go Figure Technology, and before that as regional general counsel for Banc One Corporation. He began his career as an associate with Jenkens & Gilchrist and later with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

  Klimko holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Ohio University and earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

• Andrew Stringer - Senior Vice President, Human Resources

  Andrew Stringer, senior vice president of human resources, is responsible for the company’s worldwide human resources.

  Stringer joined Utell in 1996 as corporate human resources manager, based in Kew, U.K. Utell later merged with Anasazi to form REZsolutions, which was later acquired by Pegasus. Stringer moved to the United States in 1998, on assignment to work on the implementation of SAP across the company. He assumed the role of human resources director in 1999, responsible for the Americas region outside the Dallas headquarters. Stringer was named to his current position in January 2004.

  Before joining Utell, Stringer worked for 10 years with Forte Hotels in the U.K., where he held a variety of positions in operations and human resources.

  Stringer attended college in the U.K. and earned a diploma in hotel, catering and institutional operations. He was recently certified as a senior professional in human resources by the Society for Human Resource Management.

• Tom Gallagher - Executive Vice President, Revenue Generation

  Thomas “Tom” Gallagher is executive vice president of revenue generation for Pegasus Solutions. Gallagher brings more than 25 years of experience in sales and sales leadership to his role managing all global sales and account management activities for Pegasus across its distribution, reservations, representation and commission processing product lines.

  Most recently, Gallagher served as sales vice president, HP Enterprise Services, where he led the turnaround of the Communications, Media and Entertainment sales group, managing a team of 20 sales professionals responsible for more than $600 million in revenue. Prior to HP, Gallagher was the strategic outsourcing executive for International Business Machines (IBM). He has also launched global sales initiatives with IPC Information Systems, AT&T Solutions, BSG Corporation and Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

  A graduate of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in systems engineering, Gallagher also served as a captain in the United States Marine Corps.

• Steve Lapekas - Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer & Corporate Business Development

  Stephen J. “Steve” Lapekas is the chief technology officer and senior vice president, corporate business development within the Information Technology and Corporate organizations of Pegasus. His responsibilities include enterprise application and maintenance, portfolio management, professional services, product management and corporate business development. During Steve’s tenure, Pegasus has gone through multiple information technology transformations; most notably new cost-efficient technologies such as data center automation and multi-core processing.

  Prior to Pegasus, Steve served as the vice president of client services and practice director of Entessa’s Automation Integration practice. After leaving EDS in December 2003, Steve and Entessa, leveraging industry and technical expertise, established an industry first Automation Integration practice. The practice consulted and integrated industry best data center automation software throughout North America, Asia Pacific and EMEA.

  While at EDS, Steve served as the client executive and business administrator of the Loudcloud Managed Hosting Business acquisition ($63.5M). Responsibilities included managing the transition as well as the profit and loss ($45M) of 45 clients that included USAToday.com, News Corp, Nike, Blockbuster, Fandango, Adidas and Brocade Communications. Additional responsibilities included the Business Operations and Project Management Office of the Web and Application Hosting Service Offerings.

  Prior to the Loudcloud acquisition, Lapekas was the global service executive of Web hosting and enterprise application hosting within the EDS Hosting Services group and Operations Solutions. He and his group were responsible for the profitability, planning, directing, and developing the overall portfolio strategy for the Web and Application Hosting Service Offerings.

  Lapekas joined EDS in 2000 as a member of the Marketing and Portfolio Management organization to evaluate and manage new technologies in the Web hosting offering. He became the global offering manager of Web hosting in 2001, the same year EDS Web Hosting received Network Computing’s Editor’s Choice Award. In early 2002, the offering was also named a market leader in Business 2.0’s “Who’s Who of E-Business”.

  Before joining EDS, Lapekas served as a product manger for Global One Communications within the Internet Application Services organization. He transitioned to Global One from Perot Systems where he held various positions working for accounts such as National Rental Car and PSINet. Lapekas also spent five years of active military duty as an officer in the US Army, Field Artillery. During this time, he served in multiple leadership positions while attaining the rank of Captain. His military qualifications include Airborne, Air Assault as well as the coveted Ranger tab.

  Lapekas received a B.S. in general engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He was also a three-year letter winner on the varsity baseball team.

  In his spare time, he enjoys watching and participating in all sports. Steve Lapekas lives in McKinney, TX, with his wife, Tracey, and sons Reid and Ty.