Our Team

Chicke Fitzgerald

CEO and Founder

Known as the “Guru of Travel Distribution,” Chicke Fitzgerald is a visionary, pundit, and travel industry veteran. Her three decades in the trenches and at the top of the travel industry have brought keen insight into the development of travel’s newest additions: a trip planning process that automatically goes beyond when and where — and — the convergence of planning, mapping and booking online.

Fitzgerald founded LeisureLogix™ to provide a much needed online resource for road travelers after identifying a gap in the online marketplace. The result is technology with superior content and a new buying metaphor that mimics the travel agent conversation and can be applied beyond the road trip sector to other travel segments.

Fitzgerald is also the CEO of Solutionz Group International, a top business travel management and distribution consulting firm that has provided early stage incubation services to LeisureLogix. She has extensive expertise at all levels of travel distribution, including on-line/off-line agency consulting and assistance to in-house corporate travel functions, travel suppliers and global distribution systems, and will bring that experience and business methodologies to LeisureLogix™.

A recognized expert and author on global travel distribution, Fitzgerald has written and published four books on the topic and recently published a white paper on "Marketing to the Forgotten Mass Market". Fitzgerald’s experience includes international business development, especially in the areas of strategic planning and implementation. She has formed numerous joint venture partnerships and start-up companies in the travel distribution arena.

Fitzgerald was Director of Sales and Marketing with SITA, a Paris-based, billion-dollar telecommunications company, where she was responsible for launching an IBM-based reservations service marketed to airlines worldwide. In 1995, following Morgan Stanley’s investment into SITA, Fitzgerald was one of the original founders of Equant, the global travel and transportation firm. Fitzgerald has also held leadership positions at Worldspan and Sabre, leaders in computerized reservation systems for travel.

Fitzgerald is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants. She is the chair of the Travel Sciences advisory board and also holds advisory board positions with TIA’s TravelCom conference, the TravelCom Women’s Forum, and @aquila. She studied at Oral Roberts University and the University of Michigan.  She can be contacted at chicke@leisurelogix.com.

Annette Hogan

Chief Marketing Officer

Annette joined LeisureLogix this summer.  In her new role, she will focus on business development, product marketing and sales.  A seasoned travel industry executive, Annette brings over 30 years of hands on success in travel and tourism,

She joins LeisureLogix from Amadeus, where she was Managing Director of the Hospitality Business Group for North America, responsible for management, marketing and sales of Amadeus' comprehensive hospitality distribution and IT solutions, products and services.

Her previous experience includes Delaware North Companies, where she was head of global sales and marketing of the Parks & Resorts division with a portfolio of 20 national and state parks and resorts with more than $300 million in revenues.  With these markets being heavily focused at the drive market, Hogan's DNC experience will strengthen the company's penetration of the state and national parks market.  She also held senior executive positions with Far & Wide (then the largest value added tour operator in the US) where she was a part of the startup team and Royal Caribbean, heading up their eCommerce group. 

Annette is also a partner in incubator, Solutionz Group.  She resides in Miami, FL and has a residence in Tampa, FL as well.  She can be contacted at annette@leisurelogix.com. 

Connie Goscinski-Smith

Vice-President Product Development

As Vice President of Product Development, Connie Goscinski-Smith is responsible for the requirement definition, development, implementation, and quality assurance of the LeisureLogix product line.

Connie brings over 20 years of travel industry experience to LeisureLogix. She began her career in travel technology with Delta Air Lines and has held management positions of increasing responsibility at Delta and Worldspan. She also was VP of Product Development for a Boulder, CO, based startup that provided a unique “push” technology solution for travel service suppliers to deliver personalized one-to-one communication and information to their customers. Connie has extensive experience in the technical development, product marketing, and product planning and support of travel related products and services. She previously established and managed her own consulting firm concentrating on project management and product life cycle development of major information technology projects.

In addition to travel, Connie is founder and Managing Partner of Housing Connection, LLC, a real estate investing firm and property management company. She received her undergraduate degree at Alliance College and is a graduate of the Leeds School of Business leadership program at the University of Colorado.  She may be contacted at connie@leisurelogix.com.

Helene Warner

Vice-President Operations

Helene specializes in operations and customer service. She is leading the customer care operations for LeisureLogix. Prior to Leisurelogix LLC, Helene worked for the Solutionz Group as Director of Strategic Planning. Her role with Solutionz is to focus on the needs of our client’s business improvement methodology. Since with Solutionz, Helene has created business improvement modules that focus on business growth, business start-up, new product launch, customer centricity, effective confrontation and merger and acquisitions. Helene also specializes in business start-ups with complete business plans.

Helene has over 20 years of experience in marketing; call center, and communication industry. She has a natural ability and enjoys working on business improvement methods. Helene has a strong sense of identifying, managing and qualifying new business opportunities.  She received her Six Sigma certification while working for GE Consumer Finance.  Helene worked for GE Consumer Finance for 10 years. She held several roles throughout her employment at GE such as staffing analyst, operations analyst, communication specialist, operations specialist as well as the role of administrator over several facilities. In 2005, while with GE Consumer Finance, Helene received the America’s Award for her outstanding work.

Helene is currently working on the launch of several new businesses. She is also developing a call center business plan for a specific client as she works with the development team and at a later date private label companies. She is also putting together the training material to see the project ends successfully. 

Helene studied at Eckerd College and the University of Phoenix in Tampa in Business Management and Marketing. She may be contacted at helene@leisurelogix.com.

Kit Cox

Director of Content Operations

Kit Cox is the Director of Content Operations for LeisureLogix’ trip planning website, assigning the information from our automated data feeds to the appropriate Point of Interest and Event categories in our database.  She will also head up the manual content enrichment efforts necessary to provide informative, personalized recommendations for our users.

Kit has been in the travel industry for many years and has been involved with the e-commerce side of the industry since 1996.  She was a part of the start up teams with Lowestfare.com and with LasVegas.com. in Technical Development, Program and Project Management, and Operations. She may be contacted at kit@leisurelogix.com.