Vernon has been in information technology, travel, and Reservation Technology for over 29 years
And since graduating as a teacher way back in 1974, his journey can be highlighted as follows:
Stellenbosch University
Primary Teacher's Diploma, Department of Education, Primary Teachers,Department of Education 1971 - 1984
Venon studied at Paarl Teacher’s Training College, Cape Town Teacher’s College,
Stellenbosch University, Athens University, Georgia-USA, Nova University, Florida-USA, and
Columbia University, NY.
Vernon specialized in the teaching of “Gifted Students” and finally took over the reins at the
Kimberley Teachers Center as acting Deputy Head and further specialized in audio-visual.
Technology and the teaching of teachers to teach gifted students.
Vernon co-pioneered the first International Conference: Education for the Gifted, at
Stellenbosch in 1984, and the first International Future Problem Solving Bowl for Gifted
Students and teachers in Cape Town in 1983 with Dr. Kobus Neethling.
Silicon Computer Corporation
1985-1990
CEO of Silicon Computer Corporation, specializing in PC/UNIX custom software solutions in
Travel, Education, and Government/Tourism. Managing Director of Budget Computers,
specializing in turnkey off-the-shelf software solutions for education and business.
Completed the Marketing Management first class at Damelin Management School.
Budget-Rent-A-Car
1990-1991
Strategic consultant to Budget – Rent – A – Car in the Western Cape to implement the computer
sales systems at their Cape Town office.
Graduated from Learning International/Training Systems Inc. in “Quality Service Skills”
and “Management by Responsibility.”
Galileo International
1992-1995
Pioneer and Head of Galileo Southern Africa to convert all SAA/SAAFARI travel agents to the Galileo Travel GDS system. He obtained a 96% market share within 4 years.
Vernon also headed up the Galileo International Hotel Group, consisting of 7 major countries, with the focus on “Rooms and Beds – Reservations.”
Completed the Strategic Management and Marketing Wits Business School courses, incorporating International Reservation Technology.
Vernon also consulted with Amadeus Global Distribution System to implement the GDS in Africa with Risto Tumela, the CEO.
Amadeus enjoys a market share of 35% or more and is growing.
IN2.com
1996-2001
Vernon pioneered one of the first Oracle Internet Database Internet Reservation Engines, ISAA.com (Internet Southern Africa Accommodation), and merged this program with InterRes.co.za (The City Lodge Reservation Booking Engine).
Thereafter, Vernon and his partners formed a company called IN2.com, which evolved into a very sophisticated online travel booking system for SAS Airlines, Den Norskebank, and Hydro in Norway.
Vernon spent 4 months in Norway overseeing the global implementation of the IN2 software sale and thereafter sold his shares and focused on formulating a new company, VJ2 Web Management, which specialized in designing websites and online booking engines for hotels in Southern Africa. Vernon sold this company to Electric Fire and focused on GDS expansion in SA and Africa.
ReservHotel
1996-Present
Owner and Managing Member of ReservHotel International - Africa and Global Reservations Marketing T/A ReservHotel International Africa—a world leader in hotel, guesthouse, and B&B online travel reservation systems representing over 300 properties in Africa and 3600 properties worldwide, generating over 230 000 reservations per annum globally.
Completed The Graduate Institute of Management and Technology (GIMT) courses in Managing Strategic Markets.
Vernon also completed The Strategic Dimension and Marketing Planning via Henley Management College in London.
eRevMax
2013-Present
Sales Director Africa and Indian Ocean Islands - eRevMax/Rate Tiger offers real-time monitoring and management of room rates, availability, and restrictions across all hotel-connected sales channels since 2001. In 2016 we released LIVE OS, a singular platform to operate multiple hotel technology services. Yes, even those services that are not owned by eRevMax because we believe in profit and unity.
eRevMax
2017-Present
In 2001, we introduced a channel manager for hotels. It quickly became an industry norm. Today hoteliers work with several technology systems. To assist you in managing them easily, we present LIVE OS—a singular platform to operate multiple hotel technology services. Yes, even those services that are not owned by us! Because we believe in profit in unity.
RevIntel by RainMaker
2019-Present
Cloud-based revenue management solutions to optimize your revenue, drive increased profitability, save valuable time & help you outperform your competitors. I would like to introduce you to our Cutting Edge Revenue Management Reporting Tool, which will make your life so much easier and avoid the compilation of spreadsheets to ascertain the target versus pace by room, rate, source, etc., versus the same time last year, last month, last week, etc. REVINTEL - https://www.letitrain.com/hospitality-gaming/revintel-hotel-business-intelligence In addition, RevIntel is a very simple app that hoteliers get used to using it in half an hour! Below are the major benefits, which are being implemented by a number of our hotels internationally, and they are loving the product:
A premium web-based application that saves time for your executives, GM’s, revenue managers, sales teams, marketing teams, finance teams and all throughout the organization by cutting the manual extracting from Opera to feed into excel reports on a hotel level/portfolio level and allowing them to concentrate on analysis and revenue generation.
Aligns all reports and figures across the organization and eliminate all excel sheets flowing around
Instant fresh and reliable data with no errors.
Understand booking pace, daily pickup, and pinpoint issues affecting performance, while there is still time to address them and grabbing every revenue opportunity.
Uncover property, market, brand or portfolio-wide trends and opportunities.
Save time and maximize profitability with uniform portfolio visibility at a click of the mouse.
Identify your best accounts and travel agents with individual rate-code level and historical analysis and thus shift business accurately for more revenue generation.
Pinpoint anomalies and the root causes behind them.
Compare YOY market conditions and economic activities to guide your marketing effort.
