One Vacation Club |Company Profile
From their Head Office, in North Queensland Australia, One Vacation Club continues to develop a reputation as an innovative sales and marketing company and with offices and business interests throughout Asia, Europe, US and the Middle East is steadily developing a global reach.
The principals of the Company, Mike Andrews and John Rummery, recognised Our Vacation Club® as the ideal programme for the private individual looking to preserve the value of their vacation dollar and corporations looking for a prestigious and effective reward programme for their customers.
Mike and John who have gained excellent reputations in their chosen fields having obtained the marketing contract for this unique product set about developing an effective business model that would bring the benefits of Our Vacation Club® to the market at a price that could compete with any hotel discount card or existing loyalty programme, while providing unsurpassed benefits for their customers that would normally be associated with a vacation club membership costing several thousand dollars.
We leave you to judge if the model and pricing strategy they produced is the right answer for you or your company, confident in the knowledge if you have a problem or simply want to know more about OVC they always look forward to talking to their customers and making sure they are getting what they were promised.
One Vacation Club |Company Profile |Principals
John Rummery
John Rummery was educated in Australia where he has spent most of his
extensive career in retail banking and payments operations, rising to the
ranks of senior management within WestPac Banking Corporation, one of
Australia’s leading banks. At WestPac, John had senior management
responsibility for systems technology, business recovery, new banking
applications and merchant acquiring.
In 1997, John moved to the Middle East to the role of General Manager for
Network International, one of the region’s leading third party card
processing bureaus. Between then and 2004, John was given further
responsibility within the Emirates Bank Group, becoming General Manager of
Diners Club, UAE, and a board director of ELCO (Emirates Loyalty Company)
responsible for introducing the region’s first smart loyalty card programme.
John also had management accountability for all aspects of Emirates Bank’s
card programmes (issuing and acquiring) - one of the largest card portfolios
in the Middle East.
In recognition of his considerable knowledge and experience in both
traditional and EMV card processing, John was invited by Visa International
in 2002 to become a Technical Advisor, where he represented the Middle East
on this global business advisory board..
John has a wealth of experience in card payment operations and processing in
both Asia and the Middle East, spanning over 20 years. He is well versed in
all aspects of EMV chip technology, having masterminded the EMV strategy and
migration plan for the Emirates Bank Group (implementing EMV standards for
both Visa and MasterCard, incorporating a major integrated multi-function
loyalty application). He also project managed the establishment of a
Visa-certified third party EMV personalisation bureau within Network
International.
John is now in addition to his duties as a Director of One Vacation Club applying his experience in both debit and credit card
management in a consultancy role with OVC FZC, our Middle East management consultancy arm, where he is currently working
extensively throughout the Middle East, Australia and South East Asia.
One
of his current assignments includes project managing an EMV migration for a
major bank in Asia.
One of John’s great strengths is his ability to apply his knowledge of EMV
and smart card technology in a very practical and “hands-on” way, providing
valuable advice and guidance in an easy to understand manner.
This hands on no nonsense approach is applied to the strategies he helps One Vacation Club customers develop when they use OVC as an acquisition or retention tool.
Mike Andrews
Mike Andrews was educated in the United Kingdom and spent the first part of his working life serving with the British Army at home and abroad.
Mike has been involved in direct sales since the early eighties and gained an enormous level of experience based on property sales and financial services in the UK and Europe.
For the last sixteen years he has worked in the vacation, lifestyle and leisure industry where he has been responsible for the creation, operation and sale of resorts, travel clubs, loyalty programmes and membership clubs, in various parts of the world including Europe, Thailand, Pakistan, India, USA and the Middle East.
Mike's expertise and standing within the lifestyle and leisure industry is well recognised and his 'coal face' experience combined with excellent problem solving and analytical skills brings an exceptional level of knowledge and ability to the Company.
He is a firm believer in ensuring the products he markets deliver value for money to the consumer and the information they receive enables them to make an informed choice.
Based on his experience of other international lifestyle and leisure clubs Mike saw Our Vacation Club represented good value for money and would appeal to a wide ranging audience around the world.