Gregory Kurdian, CITE
President

Founder, owner and active managing director, Mr. Kurdian brings over 38 years of experience in meetings, incentives and conference travel to the company. He received the incentive industry designation as a Certified Incentive Travel Executive (CITE) from the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives in 1978.

Jeffrey Burto
Senior Vice President - Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Burto joined Sunbound in 1995 following an extensive background in hotel general management, operations, and accounting.

Carolyn Chesnut
Senior Vice President - Partner Relations

Ms. Chesnut purchased worldwide incentive and meeting services and was a longtime customer of Sunbound for a number of years prior to joining our staff in 1994.

John "JC" Costello
Vice President - Operations

Mr. Costello heads up Sunbound's entire ground operations including transportation, staff, activities, communications, and special events such as Sunbound's unique Team Building programs. He has been a part of Sunbound since 1996.

Ray Vlacich
Vice President - Sales & Marketing

As Vice President of Sales for Sunbound, Ray brings professional Sales Management and coordination to Sunbound’s very creative and exciting sales force, located both in our Florida headquarters and in The Bahamas.  As in his past positions at Sunbound, having been interim director of several departments, such as Realization, Marketing Services, and Marketing Communications, Ray’s knowledge of our clients and our hotel partnerships coupled with his professional skills in marketing have made him very well suited to lead the Sales Team with coordination, professional follow-up, and both internal and external communications.

Jessica Schrag
Director - Theme & Realization

Jessica brings years of theatrical, special event, and décor expertise to her position as Sunbound’s Director of Realization. From catering, entertainment, design, and site management, to budgeting, tenting, lighting, and sound, she has done it all and done it with aplomb.

David Vargo
Director - Marketing Communications & Creative Media

David provides exceptional graphics and audio/visual communications – ensuring that Sunbound’s services reach their targeted market base. He manages the entire hard copy and digital creative process using internal and external resources through design, copywriting, production, color proofing, printing and inventory management. He is responsible for all company branding, alliance marketing collateral, and advertising for special projects.

Andrew Hairston
Manager – Field Operations

Mr. Hairston's responsibilities include producing Sunbound’s major events including international concerts and other events. He continues to design and operate our customized Team Building events and activities, for which the company has great recognition.

Camille Hanna
General Manager

Camille was one of the very first operations staff when Sunbound first began operations in 1990. An experienced professional and a member of the Sunbound team since 1996, Camille is part of the Senior Management Team whose responsibilities cover all DMC or ground operations throughout The Bahamas.

Ray-Don Poiter
Airport Manager

The first Sunbound person your guests usually see on arrival in Nassau, Mr. Poiter is the personification of a true Bahamian Welcome; a sincere greeting to “our Island”. His competency, cordiality and knowledge of airline and airport inner workings make him one of the most valuable of our colleagues, making the “airport experience” a positive rather than a negative memory

Frankiemae Evans
Operations Administrator - Grand Bahama Island

Assembling all of the details, including the integration of client changes just before and during operations, Ms. Evans is another Sunbound Shining Star, reaching out to take on more and more operations tasks every day.

Sundae Cooper
Field Coordinator

Critical to the success of any client program are the skills and experience of our Program Managers and Ms. Cooper typifies the very best of those qualities!  Her ability to weave greeters, skycaps, bus drivers and hotel bellmen into one smooth and seamless operating team, “transitioning” them from their flights to their rooms, makes her and her Program Manager colleagues Sunbound’s most valuable assets.