Who's who in ATTA

Our executive team in London and Board of advisors:

Name : Nigel Vere Nicoll FRGS Company: Email: info@atta.travel Phone: +44 (0)20 7937 4408 Mobile:

Nigel Vere Nicoll appointed to the Board 1996 ATTA Director & Company Secretary 1997 - Chief Executive : 2000- Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society (1972) As a former MD of Abercrombie and Kent's Hotel & Lodge Division in Kenya, CEO of Wild Africa Safaris UK ,Head of Marketing Mount Charlotte Thistle Hotels UK, MD of Universal Travel and On Safari, and proprietor of two hotels in Scotland he has extensive experience in hotel management, tour operating & marketing in UK and Africa. Nigel sits on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Consular Stakeholder Panel and the Travel Advice Review Group (TARG) and is a member of the Tourism Emergency Response Network (TERN)working on crisis management in the tourism sector.

	Name : Lina Cepkauskaite Company: Email: lina@atta.travel Phone: +44 207 937 4408 Mobile:
Lina joined ATTA in 2007 and was promoted to Marketing Manager in March 2008. Lina has recently completed a Masters Degree in Tourism Management.

	Name : Karolina Klebanska Company: Email: Phone: +44 (0)207 937 4408 Mobile:
Karolina works on accounts and administration at the ATTA office in London

Name : Simon Wilson Stephens- Chairman Company: Milestones Marketing Email: Phone: Mobile:

Appointed 2008 Elected Chairman 2009 Simon has been involved with African Safaris since 1995. He moved from the UK to Uganda for 4 years, building and managing a lodge and guiding safaris around the country. In 2000 he returned to the UK to work for the Tour Operator, Tim Best Travel, selling safaris throughout Africa. In 2003 he returned to Africa on a solo expedition for 6 month retracing the explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s Trans Africa Expedition by bicycle and kayak. Simon is now the Managing Director of Milestones Marketing, a representation company promoting a portfolio of Africa’s top lodges, camps and ground handlers.

	Name : Primrose Stobbs Company: Abercrombie & Kent Email: Phone: Mobile:
Appointed Life Patron 2010 Appointed 1994 Chairman 2003/4 With strong Kenya connections Primrose Stobbs has been a director of Abercrombie & Kent since it was formed in U.K. She is Council Member of AMREF, Trustee of Friends of Conservation (FOC) and Nyumbani, and Vice-Chairman of the Kenya Society.

	Name : Sandy Wood Company: Pulse Africa Email: Phone: Mobile:
Appointed June 2003 MD of Pulse Africa, Sandy established the company in 1992. The company specialises in tailor made trips to many African countries and parts of the Indian Ocean. Being based in Africa, she is well positioned to represent the African members of ATTA.

	Name : Caroline Grayburn Company: Original Travel Email: Phone: Mobile:
Appointed 2004 Working at Original Travel she has extensive experience and a broad knowledge of tourism in and to Africa. Before returning to the UK in 2003 she spent a number of years living and working in Africa, as a lodge operator with horse safaris, safari camps and lodges and marketing Uncharted Africa camps and mobile safaris to the UK, USA, Europe and Australia

	Name : Rupert Finch Hatton Company: Hoopoe Safaris Email: Phone: Mobile:
Appointed October 2004 Chairman December 2005/6 Rupert Finch Hatton is the Marketing Director of Hoopoe Safaris and also Kirurumu Tented Camps & Lodges. He is based in ArushaTanzania and looks after their marketing needs across Europe and North America.

	Name : Albee Yeend Company: Steppes Travel Email: Phone: Mobile:
Appointed Oct 2003 Albee Yeend is General Manager for Steppes Africa. Albee has extensive knowledge of Africa as a former general manger of Tongabezi Lodge & Sausage Tree Camp, Zambia - and Jack’s Camp & San Camp, Botswana -

	Name : Anita Powell Company: Small World Marketing Email: Phone: Mobile:
Appointed October 2006 Anita is the Director of Small World Marketing, a representation company established in January 2006. Anita has worked 'on the ground' running luxury tented camps and lodges in Kenya; worked for Travel Africa magazine and spent 2 years as the UK sales and marketing manager for the Kenya Tourist Board before she set up Small World Marketing.

: Marc Harris Company: Tanzania Odyssey Email: Phone: Mobile:

After training as an chartered accountant and a short stint in the City, Marc headed to Africa where his passion lay for a 2 year “walk about” in 1995. On his return to the UK in 1997 he founded Africa Archipelago. In the 2000 he spent a considerable length of time researching the new Cadogan guide to Tanzania, and in 2001 he set up a London based tour operator - Tanzania Odyssey. He has previously served as a director of ATTA and remains Managing Director of Tanzania Odyssey. He is married with 2 young children

: Andrew Smith Company: Bluebay Hotels Zanzibar Email: Phone: Mobile:

Born in Kenya Andrew went to school in UK and university in USA. Having completed his Masters at the School of Hotel Management at Cornell University, he returned to Kenya to work in Diani, Mombasa where the family had been in the hotel business since 1969. He later moved to Zanzibar to develop Bluebay Beach Resort on the N. E. coast which he opened in December 1999. Today the group owns 2 other properties in Zanzibar, the all new Sultan Sands next door to Bluebay and Beyt al Chai a boutique hotel in the Stone Town. While living in Zanzibar together with others he started and served as the first Chairman of Zanzibar Association of Tourism Investors. He now lives back in Kenya and is married with two children.

: Natalia Thomson Company: Now Media Email: Phone: Mobile:

Natalia Thomson works at Africa’s largest travel trade publisher, Now Media, as managing editor of Travel News Weekly, Business Travel Now and Southern African Tourism Update. She is the head of the Travel Publications division and is heavily involved in online media and B2B initiatives as a co-driver of the TABPI chapter in South Africa. Thomson completed a MSC in publishing studies cum laude through the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Her specialisation was online media adoption by the South African business-to-business sector.

: Ross Kennedy Company: Africa Albida Tourism Email: Phone: Mobile:

Zimbabwe born and educated, holding a hospitality degree attained in UK, Ross is now CEO of Zimbabwe based tourism group, AFRICA ALBIDA TOURISM. A privately owned company, of which Ross is a founder shareholder the group has expanded operations beyond it’s Victoria Falls base, with flagship Victoria Falls Safari Lodge, The Boma Restaurant and Lokuthula Lodges, to include a management and marketing division that has won contracts on several other well known properties in Zimbabwe, and is about to expand into neighbouring Botswana with a new build lodge. Ross is heavily involved in industry affairs in Zimbabwe, and is a founder member,(and current chair) of Gotovictoriafalls.com, Victoria Falls Anti Poaching unit.

Director : John Berry Company: Zambezi Safari & Travel Co Email: Phone: Mobile:

With African roots stretching back to 1820, John Berry grew up in KZN, South Africa. After qualifying as a Mechanical Engineer with a successful first career in South Africa’s corporate world, collar-and-tie routines were replaced by rolled up sleeves as founder of a fledgling safari company in Zimbabwe in 1995. John has since been directly involved in the safari industry as MD of Zambezi Safari & Travel Company, based in the UK since 2000. His various roles have covered every aspect of the tour operating business including marketing, sales, strategy, accounts, finance, staffing, systems and technology. With extensive experience serving British, North American, European and African markets and a respectably deep knowledge of safari products throughout East, Central and Southern Africa, John believes he can bring fresh energy and well rounded insights to the ATTA board. John and his wife Trish live in Devon with two undergraduate children in London.