René

I am a born and raised New Yorker. Actually, a Manhattanite. I grew up on the top floor of a walk-up adjacent to the East River, and from my bedroom balcony I would watch the planes on approach into LaGuardia and identify them by their livery and logo. Names like Pan Am, Eastern and Braniff. My parents would take me to the West Side and while I was just a kid, I can remember taking pier-side tours of the SS United States, France and Queen Mary before they sailed away in a parade of confetti, streamers and balloons. When I graduated from NYU, I crossed the Atlantic on the QE2 for an 11 week ramble through Europemaking it home with less than a dollar in my pocket. Now I run one of the top public relations travel practices in the world.