Management Team
Founder & CEO

Chief Operating Officer

Amy Brueckner
Chief Financial Officer

Mark Pizza
Between being CIRE’s CFO and my art, it’ll be a while before I travel to the remote destination of Antarctica. But anything good is worth waiting for. Australia and Asia also are on my bucket list. Along with another remote destination: The Galápagos Islands. I’m drawn to remote places. Protected from mankind. They’re just so hopeful. Also, gravitate to nature. I’m an artist. Nature, city lifestyle, capturing energy in a fleeting moment—these impact my creative process, photography, digital overlay, various materials. Turn the page to my LinkedIn: creative collaborator, business & team development, creative & production operations, account services, project management—with Paramount and Toys R Us. My right brain/left brain, equal. Creative work; it takes money, operations, budgets. Bringing anything to life involves finances. Production, workflow, operations; siphons down to financial. Financial management crosses over, touches everything. Creative should surprise. But, budgets, numbers, financials, never.
Luxury Vacations, Honeymoons & Experiences

Katy Rebrovich
A couple was thinking the Canary Islands, Maldives or Seychelles for their honeymoon. No. No. And no. Mauritius has the exact feel and experience their hearts desired. mawr-RIH-shuhs – I’m a pronunciation whiz. Tell me what you want to feel. What photos you want to post. What experience you want. Rely on my knowledge to make it happen. Another couple dreamed of riding elephants in Tahiti and over-water bungalows. They’d have to take an elephant in their luggage for that to happen. Sent them to Bali where elephants live. My family didn’t have money for much, but family vacations? Always. We Brits fly. It’s what we do. My first memory is chasing lizards on our patio in Malaysia where my dad worked. My mum took photos of washing me in a bucket. Still break into a rash when a camera points at me. I have a theater degree, yet prefer dramatic trips. Became an expert in U.S., Caribbean and Canada travel. After that, I mastered exotic long-haul destinations. Took a job in America and moved from the U.K. to LA. Why LA? The Kings, Ducks and best weather. LAX was behind my first apartment. I reenacted “Top Gun” racing my motorcycle against A380s. If the Qantas flight landed already, I knew I was late for work. I get lost in a paper bag in LA, but navigate Bangkok like a champ. Traveled six countries in five years to scout destinations for my clients, but taken only one vacation. Honeymoon and leisure travel are my labors of love. Where are you sending me next? That’s what I want to hear from clients.

Esther Klijn

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The moments that give your life its direction; reveal your passion. They happen at any age. But mine? I was fortunate. Young, as in high school and college age. Growing up, my grandparents made travel an every-holiday event. But, after service trips in high school to Thailand and Costa Rica and in college to the Czech Republic, I knew I wanted to make tourism and hospitality my career. Thailand, the “Land of Smiles,” is where I gained my personal perspective—even if in a conflict, never leave anything on a bad note. Smile because it is a good life. Seeing how people live, how life unfolds elsewhere, learning history, making friends, building relationships. All the things textbooks and guidebooks can’t teach. So much to see. So much to explore. Spain, Australia and returning again to Japan top my to-do list. Afraid of heights, but I’d overcome it to experience Dinner in the Sky (a glass enclosed table for 22 suspended 165 feet in the air) in Athens, Greece. Big believer in working smarter, not harder, so I like creating Google maps with places to see and things to do, then choose accommodations. My favorite travel accessory recommendation? It’s one for my fellow vertically challenged travelers out there. A foot hammock. Attaches to the back of an airplane seat. Instant foot rest. Best. Invention. Ever.
Corporate, Meetings & Group Travel

Terri O'Brien
A plain hamburger. That’s all she wanted after a long day. A PLAIN hamburger was not on the room service menu. Called my hotel connection and it was delivered to her room. AND the hotel updated its menu to meet guests’ preferences. With travel, it’s the little things I can help with that matter most. All challenges accepted, especially when I hear, “Not available.” April storms canceling flights across the east. Still made sure a client arrived in Atlanta just in time for tee off at the Masters in Augusta. Known travel planning was my future since I was a little girl standing on the tarmac at Logan watching planes. My uncle worked for Eastern Airlines. Fast-forward 30 years. Leisure. Corporate. Group. For travel agencies. For companies. Three decades and not one day has been the same. Imagine the experience and connections made in 30 years! Not to mention my own travels. Too much to see and learn to pick a favorite. Though a fan of volcanoes, rain forests and seclusion. Africa. Europe. Central and South Americas. The U.S. – especially the 30 ballparks my mother and I visited to watch the Red Sox play and Maine, my second home that’s been in my family for more than 50 years. All this travel knowledge and my corporate connections are at CIRE’s clients’ fingertips from my hometown and CIRE’s office in Boston. At the end of a long business day, sometimes you just want a plain hamburger. I make that happen.

Robyn Panaccione
All hail “the Waiver Queen!” Knock on wood, but I’m pretty successful at getting fees waived even in unforgiving environments… like canceling Manhattan hotel reservations last minute over the holidays. Vanity Fair Oscar parties. GQ’s Men of the Year (MOTY). Glamour’s Women of the Year (WOTY). Golf Digest Masters’ events. Bon Appetit’s Uncorked – Vegas. And stars gracing the covers of Vanity Fair and Vogue… I’ve booked a lot of celebrity and entertainment travel over my 18 years with Conde Nast Travel, and I’ve known Eric just as long. When he started CIRE Travel in 2013, Eric wanted me on the team, but the timing wasn’t right. Five years later Eric texted, “It’s time!” It was the right time for me, too. Like the entertainment industry reboots the classics, I’m glad to be at an agency that has brought back personal relationships… Somewhere I can look 10 steps ahead for clients to create the best experience, where satisfaction and service reign, and I can focus on consulting with clients on how to travel well. I’ve visited Italy (my 2nd favorite place), Israel, Greece, China, Mexico and more. Anguilla is my favorite destination on earth… My husband and I were married there. He’s been a rock since our dating years, thoroughly unfazed by celeb photographer, Annie Leibovitz, shooting Paltrow, Aniston, Dunst, Hayek and others, on a Vanity Fair holiday issue photoshoot with me. Celebrity or not, everyone deserves star treatment when traveling. I make that happen with my experience and CIRE connections.

Nikki Ledbetter

Amira Dickinson

Jamie Bennett
Client Services

Jason Villacres

Augie McGannon

Amy Fronczkiewicz
TWENTY+ years I spent as an entrepreneur. Specifically, a commercial photographer doing shoots for brands, such as J. Crew, Madewell, PVH, The Jewelry Group, Nadri, to name a few. Today, re-thinking what fascinates me, what stirs my curiosity. Transferring my business and creative skills to CIRE Travel, it’s my love for travel that’s leading me on this new magical path. New people, places. Learning new things, using and stimulating different parts of my brain. The devil is in the details—especially in billing. Especially when booking travel. My favorite travel experiences… white water rafting the Colorado River for 89 miles, biking Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic in daylight at 10:00 p.m., Jamaica, fully immersed in the culture learning to make bammy (cassava bread that takes days). Twenty+ years living in New York makes me an official New Yorker. Originally from and still have family on 72 acres in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania. I'm a chameleon. As home there, as I am here. Still love wandering around knowing there is still so much to see, do and feel between the architecture, diversity and culture. If I could do anything, I’d travel the world, my magical path… photographer, CIRE Travel… just scratching the surface.