DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN THE B2B TRAVEL AND EVENTS SPACE

RendezVerse is a child of the pandemic. When travel and events came to a standstill, what did the world’s leading event organiser for the travel and meetings industry do? Having spent 15 years building a portfolio of trusted B2B travel and events brands including m&i and TFest, our largest shareholder, Worldwide Events, looked to the future. And in the summer of 2020, RendezVerse was born.

OUR TEAM

PETER
GOULD
CEO

Chairman of Worldwide Events, founder and former CEO of Great Hotels of the World, Peter has always pioneered technology to make events and meetings more efficient. In 2010 he created Face2Face, a revolutionary scheduling software, for one-to-one meetings at events. On launching TFest in 2019, he introduced machine learning matchmaking to the travel industry, optimising meetings once again.

MARK
BROWN
COO

Mark’s industry experience spans software development, technology publishing, legal training and hospitality industries. He has held a variety of positions including CMO, CTO & CEO. Before joining RendezVerse, his agency provided business growth, recruitment and marketing services to local & international businesses.

STEVE
OLESANSKY
CTO

Steve is the founder of DeepSine, an award-winning software consultancy with a blue-chip client base. A specialist in developing real time multi-user systems, Steve also has a deep passion for blockchain technologies, especially DeFi applications.

FLORIS
LOOIJ
SALES
DIRECTOR

Floris has over 10 years of international strategic business development experience in the hospitality and events industry. He has led international sales teams for hotel and venue pre-opening projects and developed new international meeting & events concepts.

SPENCER
TARRING
DIRECTOR
OF WEB 3

Spencer is a serial entrepreneur who has designed, built, and implemented industry-grade data centres, successfully marketed and promoted products, initiated and executed large fundraising projects, and worked on UX/UI design to build interactive apps and websites.

RICHARD
BARNES
DIRECTOR

Richard is CEO and co-founder of Worldwide Events, with 25 years of experience building businesses in the hotel sales, marketing and distribution space. Formerly CEO of Great Hotels of the World, Richard co-created Worldwide Events in 2004, developing market leading brands including m&i, Private Luxury, and TFest, building global communities of travel industry players.

ELSA
HARBOURNE
ADVISOR

Elsa is the Director of Event Technology at Worldwide Events. She has designed and managed all the software development and integrations for our proprietary platform Face2Face. She has ten years’ experience developing technology that makes events more efficient for attendees.

MICHAEL
COHEN
ADVISOR

Michael has over 20 years of innovative tech-focused, international strategic business development experience, driving scalable and optimised go-to-market initiatives, across the hospitality, travel, and retail sectors, specialising in global metaverse, VR, AR, and XR solutions and commercialisation.