Management Biographies
Steve Glenn, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Glenn, President and founder of Executive Travel. Steve Glenn is a 1979 Graduate, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and played football at UNL as an offensive tackle under Coach Tom Osborne. Steve and his wife Marie live in Pawnee City, Nebraska.
Glenn has served as an elected Director and Secretary on the Lincoln Airport Authority. He is past President of the Nebraska N Club of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. In addition, he has served as an officer or director on numerous boards and commissions including President, Downtown Rotary #14; President, NEBRASKAland Foundation; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Wyuka Cemetery; Director, Junior Achievement; President, Executive Club of Lincoln; Director, Lincoln Symphony and Director, Cornhusker State Games.
Steve was recently honored as Entrepreneur of the Year by the University Of Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship as well as Business Owner of the Year by the Lincoln Independent Business Association. These awards are given annually to recognize those individuals who, with outstanding initiative and management skills, have successfully developed and managed a business.
Paul Glenn, President and Chief Operating Officer
Paul Glenn has been with Executive Travel since April 1994. Before working at Executive Travel, Paul worked at Hy-Vee and was on the store’s Board of Directors. Paul has a diploma in Business Administration from Southeast Community College in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Paul has worked his way through many areas of Executive Travel, starting with paper ticket management then moving into the accounting department doing ARC processing. From there, he built a meetings group and incentive department that became one of the most productive divisions of the company. Continuing to grow with Executive Travel, Paul took over the role of Vice President of Executive Travel working with the management team to make Executive Travel one of the most successful Travel Management Companies in the Midwest. In 2010, Paul took over the role of President and COO of Executive Travel where his focus is working with the team to continue to meet the highest standards and innovation in the travel industry.
Outside of Executive Travel, Paul is a past president of The Executive Club of Lincoln and he started the Lincoln Young Entrepreneurs group. He is also involved in two additional corporations (Headwind Consumer Products and On the Shelf Marketing Group) in the role of operations and management. Paul and his wife Becky also keep busy with their two kids, Garrison and Julia.
Chris Snurr, Chief Financial Officer
Chris Snurr received his Bachelor’s degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University and his Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Chris is a licensed, certified public accountant with extensive corporate audit and tax experience. Chris has been active in and a board member of several service clubs, nonprofit organizations and government entities. Chris is married and has two children.
Joni Doiron, Vice President of Business Development
Joni is Vice President of Business Development for Executive Travel, responsible for leading the corporate sales team. With over twenty years in the travel industry she has held management positions with BCD Travel and BTI Canada. Joni has extensive knowledge of corporate travel management, corporate travel consulting, meetings/incentive travel and account management. She has worked extensively with organizations on a local, national as well as global level on travel management program development and consolidations.
Ms. Doiron serves as President for the Nebraska/Iowa Business Travel Association; she has served on numerous travel industry panels to speak on corporate travel management; and is a featured industry speaker at local colleges and business organizations.
Jennifer Belt, Vice President of Business Solutions
Jennifer received her degree in Travel from Lincoln School of Commerce and joined the Executive Travel team in 1994. Since then she has become a Certified Travel Associate. She has worked within the company as a vacation agent, corporate agent, and branch manager prior to being promoted to the Global Account Manager position in 2006. In 2010 she was again promoted to Vice President and now leads the Business Solutions team. Jennifer works with her team to achieve 100% client retention through managing client relationships and offering value added services while delivering up to the minute reporting that assists her clients in effectively managing their travel program.
Cory Mason, Operations and Technology Manager
Cory is a Lincoln, Nebraska native and attended the University of Nebraska Lincoln, majoring in Business Administration with a minor in Graphic Design. He joined the Executive Travel team in 2003 as a vacation consultant specializing in Hawaiian vacations and has also worked as a corporate travel agent. In 2006 Cory was promoted to his current position of Operations and Technology Manager. He has since received certifications in building and supporting multiple online reservations tools, redesigned both quality control systems and agent scripting processes, and is dedicated to creating easy and seamless solutions for Executive Travel and our industry partners.
