ROCKIT GROUP, LLC
NORTH PORT, FLORIDA

Jeremy Rock has over 18 years of comprehensive experience with Hospitality Management Companies and provides a complete overall operational background His later tenure with The Edward Thomas Companies based out of Beverly Hills provided him with valuable experience in the areas of acquisitions, divestitures, new construction and renovations. Due to the unique entrepreneurial approach of the group (which included ownership of the Beverly Hills Resort, Shutters on the Beach, Resort Casa Del Mar and part ownership of Westin Resorts), he was afforded the opportunity to work on all aspects of operations, which included Resort Operations Management and Ownership functions. As part of his responsibilities at ETC, Mr. Rock was responsible for overseeing the information systems and telecommunications for all of the Resorts and corporate office. In his most recent corporate position as Director of MIS with Sunstone Resorts, he was responsible for overseeing the direction of Information Systems and Telecommunications for over 60 hotels and the Corporate Office. Sunstone Hotels portfolio of hotels is multi-branded and as such, presented a multitude of challenges regarding the standardizing of systems across a variety of applications and platforms. In addition to working with the various hotel related systems, he was also responsible for overseeing the design of the overall company’s IT infrastructure. This included the design for the local and wide area networks and layout of the company’s brand new office building located in San Clemente, California. Mr. Rock is currently the President of the RockIT Group, a technology consulting group that he founded in 1999, that specializes in the Hospitality industry. The Group is comprised of technology-based consultants and also has a networking division that specializes in the implementation of both local and wide area networks. After studying aviation and business administration at Southern Illinois University he spent a number of years working for Toshiba America as a Network Technician supporting their network and managing a team of 10 technicians who were responsible for all of the user support. Following this Scott joined Sunstone Hotels as a senior network engineer and became the Manager of Information systems. Sunstone Hotels was a $1 Billion publicly traded REIT comprised of 68 Hotels and a large corporate office. In addition to designing and administering the network at Sunstone, Scott was also responsible for engineering and supporting the business critical applications and wide area network for all of the Hotel properties. Jennifer later accepted a position a position as an implementation specialist with Daylight Software (now a part of Newmarket International Inc.), a sales and catering software application providing solutions to single and multi-property hospitality, catering and gaming organizations. During her seven year tenure, she quickly advanced through the company and became their senior and lead installation and interface specialist heading up most of their major installations including among others: These experiences provided her with extensive presentation, consultation and technical experience as well as major go-live situations. . Presently, Jennifer is consumed in her project manager role at the RockIT Group, a hospitality technology consulting group where she mainly focuses on system implementations. In her most recent implementation, Jennifer managed 30 to 40 system installations at The Umstead Hotel and Spa in Cary, NC. Within this role she scheduled demonstrations of products, assisted with the system selections and negotiated contracts in favor of the customer. Included in her duties were to coordinate with construction personnel and timelines so that vendors were not delayed. She scheduled training sessions and worked with the hardware vendor to procure equipment while maintaining within the budget. Her past expertise allowed her to offer systems knowledge, especially when certain systems needed to be interfaced with other systems correctly and effectively. Once the hotel was successfully opened, she provided on-site support, managing issues as they arose. She continues her project management role as she assists with new projects with the RockIT Group in the systems and infrastructure arena. After completing her BA Degree at the Western Washington University (Majoring in Information Systems), she accepted a position with RiverOne, Inc – a Supply Chain Management solution software company based in Irvine as a Systems Analyst. Her responsibilities included quality testing applications, writing technical documentation and user guides. ,