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Meet the StaffPartnersAccount Managers | The ATMS PartnersATMS is a PR agency based in Colorado which serves the active, adventure travel markets exclusively. Our worldwide client base numbers over 120, and our diverse staff sucessfully creative media marketing solutions for their clients. ATMS celebrated its 10 year anniversary in April 2009 with the announcement a new partnership. Jim Steiner joins Nancy Harrison and Bobbi Bolio as an active partner.
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 Adventure Travel Media Source is the brainchild of founder Nancy Harrison. Nancy only started adventuring at the age of 40 when she learned to ski, whitewater raft and horseback ride while living in Winter Park, Colorado. She went on to live in Wyoming where she enjoys fly fishing, hiking and camping, sea kayaking, and many other nature-based recreations. ATMS was formed in 1999 and partner, Bobbi Bolio joined the company in 2002. ATMS includes a great team of media kit designers and writers who support the clients with their special brand of enthusiasm. Nancy has two grown children and four grandsons, all of whom enjoy their special brand of the outdoors - fishing, hiking, camping, water sports and snow sports. Nancy is a true Citizen of the West who has lived her entire life in the Rocky Mountain States. She has become an expert in her field of media relations and spends a good deal of her time each year teaching and lecturing on PR to groups such as The International Ecotourism Society, America Outdoors, the World Congress of Adventure Travel and many state and regional conferences and international gatherings. Travel is Nancy's passion, as you can see by these photos. She spends part of each year on spectacular trips with clients. Nancy visits as many clients as possible to learn about their destinations and trips. Her motto is, “It’s never too late to have a great childhood.” See you on the rivers and trails! |  |  |
|  | Bobbi Engle joined Adventure Travel Media Source in 2002 as an active partner.  She brings to ATMS her experience in the hospitality industry as well as marketing, outside sales and accounting. She is currently the Business and Operations Manager for ATMS, working on all the financial, customer service and daily staff policy implementation responsibilities of the company. The opportunity to be involved with ATMS and founding partner, Nancy Harrison, is a dream-come-true. Bobbi and Nancy met in 1987 when they both worked for The Ranch at Ucross where they forged a relationship as colleagues and friends. It took nearly 15 years for them to both realize their dream of working together again as partners. Bobbi lives in the Phoenix area where both of her adult children are also living. Bobbi grew up in Wyoming, and loves the West, but Phoenix is where she loves to live. With both of her children on their own now, Bobbi looks forward to finally taking wonderful vacations with her husband Daren to the amazing destinations offered by the ATMS clients. Her adventure back ground is as limited as her vacation list, but she is anxious to change all that. |
|  | Jim Steiner of Niwot, CO is the newest partner of ATMS. Jim founded and owned a successful manufacturing company in Southern California for 11 years. After selling the CA business, Jim moved back to his childhood home in CO where he began his search for new business opportunities. ATMS appealed to Jim for a number of reasons. Most important were the similar values shared with the partners, delivering good promotional value at a reasonable cost and the unique and varied clientele. Jim joined the current ownership team in April 2009. In his spare time, Jim enjoys skiing with his family, fly fishing and, of course, adventure travel. |
|  | Kathryn "Kitty" Cayo began her communications career as a broadcast news reporter working the "city beat" in a mid-western college town. Her love of travel launched her a career in the hospitality industry working as a front desk clerk for a major hotel brand in the city of Milwaukee. She managed an in-house advertising agency for a hospitality management group, and was involved in the pre-opening of two national brand hotels in the Chicago market- organizing and leading sales blitz's and assisting with public relations and special events. After moving to the south shore of Lake Erie in NW Pennsylvania's "Wine Country," she served as Promotions Manager for an ABC/Fox affiliate TV station, Public Relations Director of an art-publishing firm, as well as Communications Director for a regional Destination Management Organization. Today she contracts her services through her own firm, KAC Communications Inc, and continues to write press materials and feature articles for several tourism interests. When not ruminating at a keyboard, she likes to travel, read, paint, sail, play golf and tennis and someday wants to learn to surf. Today she lives amid 25 rolling acres of fragrant vineyards in PA but maintains strong ties to her Mid-West roots, an avid fan of the Green Bay Packers and UW Badgers. |
|  | Laura Ecklund lives in San Diego, California with her husband Eric and three children - Lars, Annika and Hans. She has lived in all four time zones within the United States- growing up in Minnesota to college in Colorado to a brief one year stint in New York City to finally finding home in beautiful California. She loves San Diego so this is where she will stay! In addition to working for ATMS, Laura is a freelance writer and stay-at-home Mom that is very actively involved in the families activities. Before having children she worked in the travel industry for many years and has traveled extensively throughout the world. Her passion is travel and writing - which makes working at ATMS a perfect fit! She enjoys working as both the Editor and an Account Manager at ATMS. |
|  | Carolyn Evert has been writing since before she can remember and traveling since before she was born. Carolyn comes to ATMS with more than four years of broadcast journalism experience. She previously worked as a producer, reporter, and assignment editor. She’s told stories about everything under the sun, from the president visiting a nearby city, to a massive FBI manhunt, to the movie release of Reno 911. Carolyn believes that everything can be told in a good story and she brings this important perspective to her client work. Carolyn¹s passion for writing is just as strong as her passion for travel. Growing up as an avid RV traveler Carolyn had the opportunity to step foot in almost every state on the east coast. She studied abroad at Bond University in Australia and has also been to France, England, Canada and Costa Rica. Whenever she¹s not writing or looking for story ideas she¹s planning her next trip. She enjoys figure skating, skiing, camping, curling up with a good book, practicing yoga, and spending time with family and friends.
Carolyn is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and currently resides outside of Boston. |
|  | Nancy Goodwin graduated from high school and blindly followed the crowd to college. She wasn't sure what she wanted to do, but quickly discovered a way to mix her journalism degree with the new-fangled "Internet" technology. Starting out as online editor of the University's student newspaper, she quickly landed an intern position at the Boulder Daily Camera. Her experience there led to a summer internship at the New York Times on the Web. When the internship ended, she was drawn in by the allure of the dot-com world, and helped create and coordinate web projects for clients including Churchill Downs, Franklin Covey and Spa Hyatt. After the dot-com bubble burst, she refocused on more stable positions where she could focus on the editorial responsibilities of updating and maintaining a web presence. She currently lives in the Chicago suburbs and is sharpening her freelance writing skills. She loves using her talents to help promote ATMS's wide variety of clients. |
|  | When she isn't traveling, Jessica Blair spends her time immersed in the written side of the travel industry – editing for a popular woman's webzine, creating dynamic adventure travel media materials for ATMS and writing her own travel features and reviews.
Residing in Royal Oak – the youthful, trendy hub of the Detroit area – Jessica spends her time enjoying the company of family and friends, meandering downtown coffee houses and boutiques, and (of course) plotting her next great escape.
Among her favorite adventure experiences are: zip-lining through the Tongass National rain forest, sea kayaking in Alaska, waterfall hunting in Hawaii and wine tasting in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. (Hey, wine can be an adventure too!) |
|  | Carole Jacobs is reading some of our client's recent press releases in search of inspiration for her bio! |
|  | Cathy Jones is excited to join the ATMS team as the Media Relations Specialist. Based in the home office in Wellington, CO, she comes to us with an extensive hospitality background, most recently providing marketing and communications support for a local destination marketing organization. A former Kansas Jayhawk, Cathy has lived in Fort Collins, CO for 10 years and cheers along the Colorado State Rams (as long as they aren't playing KU) with her husband Steve and son Dillon. |
|  | John Kloster began his career in travel as a tour director in 1973 after graduation from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He worked his way up to Executive Vice President of that company and then started his own Chicago-based tour operator, which he ran for seven years. In 1987 he became Executive Director of MAST, a Midwest travel agency consortium, building it from 20 to 350 member agencies. While there he received TRAMS' annual award for innovative technological advances, as well as being twice named one of the world's 20 most influential executives in leisure travel. In 1999 Kloster became Editor in Chief and an owner of Premier Tourism Marketing, a publisher of group travel magazines including Leisure Group Travel, Travel Tips and Group Travel Directory. Today he is President of GO, a professional association of group travel organizers. He also serves as Senior Editor and contributing writer to Leisure Group Travel, as well as Account Manager for ATMS since summer 2007. Two years ago he moved to northwest Pennsylvania to be with his close friend Kitty and her son, Durk. John has a son, John IV, who is the owner of tanning salons in suburban Chicago and a daughter, Amanda (Buddy), who is a senior at the University of Colorado. He enjoys biking, golf, reading and grilling. |
|  | Tom Lacock has lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming for the past year, while working for ATMS and the Wyoming Business Council where he is a public relations specialist. A native Iowan, Tom graduated from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa where he donated his body to science through the Beaver football program. After school Tom worked as a Sports Editor at the Storm Lake Times for five years before moving to Casper, Wyoming to take a job with the Casper Star-Tribune. A connoisseur of all things football and baseball, Tom also works with the outdoor industry in Wyoming and enjoys hiking, biking, photography and writing. |
|  | Paul and Angela Lehman operate as a team for ATMS. Both working journalists with a background in the travel and hospitality industries. In 2006, they packed up their home of 25 years and together with Claudius, their Bengal cat, moved from Connecticut to New Mexico to start a new life.
Angela also traveled the world for a well known group travel company based in Washington DC, before becoming sales and marketing manager for Hilton International based in London, a position she held for 20 years, where she met her husband and where their son Mark was born. They returned to the US, where she became Conference Manager for General Electric and upon retirement, joined her husband's PR company. She also has written extensively for a national newspaper group plus magazines on features and food, with a weekly restaurant column that was very popular. She is currently re-establishing her writing career for local publications. For ATMS, Angela handles all the day-to-day client contacts, writing and computer transactions along with Nancy, Bobbi, Laura and the team.
Paul traveled all over the world for the US Government's Commerce Department on the startup of the "Visit USA." initiative at a time when foreigners were being encouraged to visit our country. After he became marketing director for the UK hospitality group, the Rank Organization where he met his wife Angela in London. He started his own PR company, Paul Lehman Associates, specializing in travel and hospitality accounts, which he continues today. With a journalism degree from NYU, Paul has written extensively on theater, film and travel for a national newspaper group, and many magazines in the northeast. He is starting a new career writing for publications in the southwest. For ATMS, Paul researches, creates and edits his partner's work. |
|  | Carrie Massey just completed her M.A. in English Literature and taught English, film, and journalism for 7 years in New Orleans, Louisiana. After Katrina, she and her husband moved to Nicaragua, Central America, for a year, and then to Colorado after that, pursuing their love of the outdoors along the way – from surfing and fishing to skiing and hiking. She and her husband also renovate and build homes in between Mardi Gras and the various festivals that dot the calendar throughout the year in New Orleans. |
|  | Stephanie Moreland is a freelance writer and public relations specialist based in Houston, Texas. After spending years working in various management positions and obtaining a bachelor's degree in Business Management, she took a trip to Europe that renewed her passion for writing, and subsequently crossed over to writing and Public Relations for the travel industry. She is a regular contributor to several publications, and has had extensive freelance marketing, public relations, business, and travel writing experience. Brought up in a family where travel was a life requirement, Stephanie began traveling before she could walk.  She has visited destinations throughout the US, and has traveled to Mexico, Jamaica, Haiti, Canada, Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany, and South Africa. The highlight of her travel experience was a four month volunteer vacation in Italy that included living in Rome and exploring travel destinations in a responsible, economic, and personally fulfilling way. Stephanie has an incurable case of wanderlust, and when she is not reading about travel, writing about it, or working with people in the travel industry, she is planning her next personal journey. Visit Stephanie's website at www.morelandwrites.com |
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| Shelley Seale is a freelance writer based out of Austin, Texas, but she vagabonds in any part of the world whenever possible.
She specializes in Sustainable Travel topics - including voluntourism, green travel, ecotourism, and outdoor/adventure travel. Shelley is a regular contributing writer at The Examiner, Transitions Abroad, Travel Roads and Andrew Harper Traveler Magazine among others. Her work has also been published in The Seattle Times, GoWorld Travel Magazine, Intrepid Travel, InfoChange India, The American Chronicle, The Austin Business Journal, Austin Monthly, San Antonio Express-News, Austin Woman and more. Her degree is in Writing & Cultural Psychology from St. Edward's University. Shelley's forthcoming book, The Weight of Silence, follows her journeys into the orphanages, streets and slums of India where millions of children live without families. Shelley's areas of writing specialty include travel, cultural issues, the arts, women & children, nonprofit and social activism, entrepreneurship, business, architecture and interior design. Her mantra is "travel with a purpose." You can visit her personal website at www.shelleyseale.com. |
|  | Neha Shah is a tourism marketing professional and freelance travel writer. She has worked for a variety of visitor-related businesses in marketing and public relations. She grew up in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and was born in India. Neha has traveled whenever possible, and has been to London, Paris, Zurich, and a handful of different cities in India. She enjoys the thrill of exploring new and unknown areas and seeing how drastically different yet remarkably similar people are no matter where they live. Her travel, writing, family and friends are all extremely important to her. She lives near Raleigh, NC, and always looks forward to spending her rare free time with her two precious nephews. |
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