Our Executive Team
Stephanie Von Oppen: Founder, CEO
Founder Virgo Communications Inc.
Vice President, Account Director for the global public relations company Ruder Finn. She played a key role in ensuring integrated Advertising, Public Relations and Marketing campaigns for Ruder Finn’s major clients, such as Four Seasons, South African Airways and the Barbados Tourism Authority.
Vice President, Account Director at DMB&B for the multi-million dollar Korean conglomerate, the LG Group. Stephanie was responsible for rebranding LG’s global launch including supervising a $150 million global media buy, $8 million production, and a $5 million global tracking study. Her duties included managing worldwide production in Vietnam, Korea, Romania and Ireland.
Project managed various Proctor and Gamble accounts for 7 years at DMB&B in New York, and was Account Director for clients such as Citizen Watches, Vanity Fair, Turkish Tourism Board and the Barbados Tourism Authority.
At Young & Rubicam Advertising in New York, Stephanie project managed global account Colgate-Palmolive as the primary client/agency liaison between 35 countries ranging from Thailand to South Africa.
Consistently attends international tourism and marketing conferences such as World Travel Market, ITB Berlin, and the AMEX Luxury Summit as well as regional tourism conferences such as CHTA (Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association) and CTO (Caribbean Tourism Organization).
Pete Cole: Co-Founder, CTO
Specialist in cross-platform user interfaces. 35+ years of expertise. Co-founder and CTO of both SSEYO Limited and Intermorphic Limited. Raised VC while CTO at SSEYO. Consultant (iOS, macOS, Android) to organisations including Oracle, BBC, Samsung, TomTom. Winner of 2 BAFTA Interactive awards.
Alastair Whittaker: Co-Founder, CIO
With nearly 40 years database technology and data analytics experience. Co-owner Integrate Consulting, a boutique systems consulting group for 20 years. Consulting engagements with clients such as Google, Oracle. Being a keen traveler, Rekke, as an amalgamation of all this history, is a natural fit.
In Memoriam
Robert Faulkner - Founder
“This was all your idea!”
Rob was, unfortunately, lost to us in 2021 before Rekke could become a reality. His vision, his concept, his leadership, all set us on the path we continue to this day.