Associates

Matt Garton has spent the last decade building e-Commerce programs for travel industry companies. Matt has held executive level positions for a number of venture capital backed companies in addition to owning successful travel related startups of his own.

While CEO at Bid4Vacations Matt also held the position of V.P. of Business Development for Our Vacation Store and assisted with business development for it’s sister company, ICE Gallery, the world’s 5th largest cruise agency. Over the past 11 years Matt has been a frequent guest lecturer at universities and trade shows speaking on search engine marketing, dynamic pricing and Internet marketing related topics specific to the travel industry. In addition he has created and delivered Internet marketing workshops and seminars for Bloomberg and Yahoo! and other highly respected brands attended by top Fortune 1000 leaders.

Over the years Matt has managed the Internet marketing efforts for a dozen travel brands and has organized multi-million dollar online marketing campaigns. A few of Matt’s clients include Liberty Travel, Central Holidays, Panda Travel, StarVue (AirTahitiNUI), Hideaways International, Groople (Travelocity Groups Provider) and Caribbean Online.

Today Matt operates and assists companies with strategic development and the creation of profitable online marketing programs.