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<td width="27%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Managing
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>Robert
Ferguson</b></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Robert has worked
in adventure travel ever since graduating university with an archaeology
degree. He has been a Mountain Guide in the Himalayas and Karakorum mountain
ranges, leading a wide selection of holidays including walking, biking,
rafting and cultural trips. He has also run trips in a number of African
countries, including Ethiopia and Lesotho.</font></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Robert has detailed
knowledge of running successful tour operations in both the UK and overseas.
His experience includes a three-year period as Operations Manager of Exodus,
one of the largest of the UK's adventure tour operators, where he was
in charge of its walking programmes. In 1992 he co-founded Karakoram Explorers,
a Pakistani Tour Operator offering trekking, rafting and cultural
itineraries. In addition, this company successfully supported climbers
onto summits of several 8000 m. peaks, including K2.</span></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">In 1996 he founded
Real World Travel Ltd., specializing in walking and biking holidays in
France and Italy, which were sold on a subcontract basis. In 1998, enthused
by the possibilities of the Internet to market and sell quality holidays,
he founded realworld-travel.com, which was launched on the 3rd July 2000
at the Royal Geographical Society in London.</font></p>
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<td width="27%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Product
Manager</b></font></td>
<td width="70%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>Ruth
Hardy</b></font></td>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ruth left university
with a degree in Law (with European Studies and French), and then took
a Masters in Tourism Management. Her work in travel commenced with </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">
Hyatt Hotels and later included a two year management training course
with Saga Holidays.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ruth joined realworld-travel.com
in June 2000 from Simply Travel, where she was Programme Manager, in charge
of </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> sales, reservations
and operations for their Cities and Short Breaks programme. With her extensive
and varied tourism background, and her fluency in French and Spanish,
Ruth works with our partners to ensure realworld-travel.com offers a wide
range of quality itineraries at a keen price.</font></p>
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<td width="27%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Online
Business <br>Development Manager </b></font></td>
<td width="70%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>Tim
O'Shea</b></font></td>
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<td width="70%" height="74"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tim
has been a keen expeditioner since his university days when a ten-week trek
across the Pyrenees gave him the taste for adventure. Leaving university
with a Degree in Engineering, Tim decided to work in adventure travel before
settling down to a more conventional career. Working as a leader for Exodus,
Tim led trips in over ten countries - including ascents of Elbrus in Russia,
trekking peaks in the Nepal Himalayas and uncharted routes through the mountains
of Iran. </font>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tim then took a field
position with Merlin, providing administrative and logistics support for
a large medical program in Tajikistan. On his return to the UK, he worked
with e-commerce companies and set </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">up
Trip-Zone.com Limited, a company that has now merged with realworld-travel.com.
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<td width="27%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Asia
Expert </b></font></td>
<td width="70%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>
Mun Leung</b></font></td>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">After graduating from
Liverpool University, Mun went to work and travel in America for three
months. She then lived and worked in Hong Kong during the hand-over year
1996/97, before backpacking around China and Australia, where she became
a qualified diver. This led her to the land of the rising sun. Based in
Nagasaki, Japan, she took numerous trips around Asia, including snowboarding
in Korea, horse-riding in Mongolia, and Scaling the Wild Great Wall of
China.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Mun has recently returned
to England from a long trip around Asia, where she did some rafting and
trekking in Nepal, diving in Thailand, and extensive haggling in China,
to name a few. She joined realworld-travel.com in August 2000, and is
their Asia Expert.</font></p>
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<td width="70%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>Paul
Fry</b></font></td>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Paul started his career
in travel over 15 years ago working for Peltours, one of the leading UK
specialists to Israel.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">In 1991 he joined
SARtravel Ltd., where he was responsible for arranging tailor-made itineraries
to southern Africa. During his time at SARtravel Ltd., he travelled extensively
within southern Africa, visiting Cape Town, The Garden Route, and Mpumalanga
in South Africa. In Zimbabwe he travelled to Harare, Victoria Falls, Bulawayo
and Lake Kariba (which is his favourite destination!) Within Botswana
he stayed at the Okavango Delta, and at the Selinda Private Reserve, where
he undertook a two day walking safari.</font></p>
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<td width="27%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Latin
America Expert</b></font></td>
<td width="70%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>Phillip
Wigan</b></font></td>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Phillip graduated
from university with a degree in <i>Afro-Portuguese, Brazilian and Religious
Studies</i>. He then lived in northeast Brazil for two years, working
as an English teacher, as well as an impromptu guide and interpreter for
overseas visitors - roles that gave him the opportunity to travel widely
throughout this vast country.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">On returning to the
UK, Phillip became a tour leader with Education First, escorting young
Latin Americans around Europe, and then took up a position with Journey
Latin America, the Latin American specialists, selling flights, hotels
and FITS across the whole continent. Tourleading with JLA has given him
the chance to gain firsthand knowledge of Colombia and the Caribbean coast,
as well as improving his Spanish.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Phillip also gained
valuable experience through running his own company, Connection Brazil
- London, which functioned as an inboard operator for south American visitors
to London. He joined realworld-travel.com in August 2000, and is responsible
for researching, administering and selling Latin America travel adventures.</font></p>
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<td width="27%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Webmaster</b></font></td>
<td width="70%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>Colin
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Colin's background
is exploration, research and computing. For ten years he </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">conducted
mineral exploration in the wilder parts of the Middle East, southeast
Asia and Latin America, before returning to head up geological research
at RTZ plc in London. </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Since 1988 Colin has
been involved in a number of publishing and computing companies. His recent
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">assignments
have included a wide range of web design and database work. Colin joined
realworld-travel.com in December 1999.</font></p>
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<td width="27%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Director
(Commercial) </b></font></td>
<td width="70%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>Paul
Bainbridge</b></font></td>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Paul has been a friend
and travelling colleague of Robert Ferguson since university days. They
made their lasting friendship travelling for six months together, predominantly
by boat in south Kalimantan, Borneo and on bicycle in southern China.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Paul has worked for
five years as Associate Director at Hanover Financial Group Ltd., equity
investors in realworld-travel.com, but he recently took a six month sabbatical
to central America to study Spanish in Guatemala and to teach an Economics
course in Costa Rica. Paul has been closely involved with realworld-travel.com
since its inception. </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Telephone
him on 0207 659 9901.</font></p>
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<td width="27%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Director
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<td width="70%"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#00FFFF"><b>Antony
Chandler</b></font></td>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Antony is a Chartered
Accountant who has spent most of his working life in corporate finance.
He is a Director of the Hanover Financial Group, but is closely involved
in realworld-travel.com limited, with responsibility for Finance and Investor
Relations.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Antony has lived and
travelled extensively in east Africa and southern Africa, and has sailed
throughout the Caribbean. Telephone him on 0207 659 9903.</font></p>
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