About Us

Home&Abroad has been creating and delivering award-winning tools for travel businesses since 2005. Home&Abroad created what became the archetype for trip planners on the web. It was rated one of the top 25 travel-related websites by Travel & Leisure magazine in 2007, featured on CNN, CTV (Canada's largest private television station) and many other media outlets. Our trip planner continues to be an industry-leader and is used by many well-known brands.

In late 2008, Home&Abroad expanded, building Fogglight, the travel industry's first on-demand application. Complete with essential travel inventories, rich content, and robust management features, Fogglight makes it possible for travel businesses to quickly build fully-functional and visually appealing travel web sites, trip planners, and travel affiliate networks from scratch.

In addition to creating unique ways for other travel businesses to expand their networks, Home&Abroad's goal is also to rapidly increase its own network. Earlier this year, Home&Abroad released 150 destination-specific travel websites and will release another 75 sites next month. We will continue to unveil a host of audience, theme, destination, and event-specific travel sites throughout the year.

By providing travel businesses with better, innovative tools for reaching more travelers and for marketing their travel products and services, Home&Abroad hopes to lead the way to a new era in the online travel business.

Executive Team

Mark Schroeder

Co-founder and CEO Mark Schroeder was previously the CEO and co-founder of both Digital Creators and e-vitro. Digital Creators was sold in 1998 to TeleTech, Inc (TTEC). e-vitro was merged into Tenet Healthcare's (THC) e-learning subsidiary, DigitalMed, in 2001. Schroeder has also been an award-winning Lecturer at the University of Colorado, where he taught Comparative Literature. He received his M.A. from Columbia University.

Heidi Krauth

Home & Abroad's Executive Vice President of Production, Heidi Krauth, was VP of Production at Digital Creators (acquired by TeleTech,Inc.), COO at e-vitro (merged into Tenet Healthcare's DigitalMed), and COO at Community Initiatives (acquired by QDM). She is one of the pioneer producers of web-based applications in the Internet world, having won an Invision Gold Medal at Comdex for her work. Ms. Krauth is also a short-story writer and has won numerous awards for her work. She received an M.A. from the University of Colorado.

Kris Thompson

Kris is Chief Technology Officer of Home & Abroad. He is a leading voice in the open source community, recently co-authored WebWork in Action, is a frequent and popular blogger on web technologies, has written articles on web technologies, and speaks at Java user group conferences. Prior to Home & Abroad, Kris was the Founder and President of Adigio, an open source consulting company. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Missouri.

James Barnett

James is Chief Information Officer of Home & Abroad. He brings over twenty years of software engineering experience to his position, and has previously held senior engineering positions at BEA, Rational Software, and Sun Micosystems. James has led numerous technology efforts, including SOA, J2EE, n-tier, and client-server frameworks and applications. He was the lead in BEA's Service Component Architecture tooling efforts. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.

Ray Agostinelli

Ray is Home & Abroad's Vice President of Product Development. He has been active in executive management at technical start-ups for over ten years including Founder & President of Kaivo Software, Vice President of Operations at Information Foundation, Vice President of Technology at Skillview Technologies, and Director of Technical Project Management for Information + Graphics Systems. In his spare time, he is a novelist and screenwriter. He received dual degrees in Philosophy and Physics from Dartmouth College.