Team

The Vibes Interactive management team has over 40 years of collective expertise in the vacation ownership, hospitality, real estate, entertainment, technology and e-commerce industries. The results-driven, interactive sales and marketing solutions provided by Vibes Interactive are a direct result of their functional expertise in business strategy, marketing, technology, web and creative design, web site analytics, and e-commerce.

 

Sunil Aluvila
President/Chief Executive Officer
Sunil Aluvila has been an innovator in marketing, vacation product development, distribution and strategic planning for more than 16 years. He has extensive experience in market research, analysis, e-business development, database marketing, interactive sales and online marketing solutions and development of strategic alliances and partnership programs with Fortune 500 companies.

 

Prior to founding Vibes, Sunil held senior management positions in e-business, online marketing, vacation club product development and distribution and interactive sales and online marketing solutions development for Shell Vacations and Alton Leisure Industries. He was also the managing director of an international direct marketing company specializing in hospitality.

 

Sunil directs Vibes’ strategic planning, product development, interactive sales and online marketing, solutions development and strategic alliances. Sunil also serves as a liaison with Vibes’ advisory board and investors. Sunil is a visionary and a strategic thinker with exceptional business acumen, leadership, marketing and management skills.

Sunil received his M.B.A. from Schiller International University (SIU), Florida with concentrations in international business and marketing attending SIU’s Strasbourg, London and Florida campuses. He received his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s diploma in computer science from India. He also completed a Bachelor of Law degree program from the University of Bangalore. In 2001, Sunil published an article which outlines how vacation products and marketing must evolve to meet the needs of the 21st Century consumer in American Resort Development Association’s (ARDA) Developments Magazine.

 

Jeffrey Ring, PMP
Vice President, Technology
Jeffrey Ring is a senior technology development professional with extensive expertise in knowledge engineering, business intelligence, architecture assessment and web-based applications development. For more than 29 years, Jeff has successfully managed and performed major software development projects across a broad range of industries including health care, financial services, real estate and professional services. Jeff has led technical teams in the design, implementation and support of a range of web-based, data-driven applications and complex systems that support functionalities such as: CRM, inventory management, order processing, credit card processing, contract management, and sales and marketing statistics.

 

Prior to joining Vibes, Jeff was president of a full-service I/T consultancy which provided technology consulting services to professional services firms including marketing companies, health care organizations, and a national real estate firm. Under Jeff's leadership, the company created a variety of web applications, including marketing-focused websites which featured customer database management, planning calculators, promotional enrollment, survey engine, event management and statistics reporting. Jeff has held senior positions in consulting, project management and systems programming at Fortune 500 and Inc 500 companies including Kraft General Foods, Discover Card Services and Metamor Technologies.

 

Jeff received his B.S. in Computer and Information Systems from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX; his M.S. in Computer and Information Systems with specialization in Artificial Intelligence from DePaul University in Chicago, IL; and his Executive M.B.A. from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Lake Forest, IL. Jeff's certifications include Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Sun Certified Java Programmer certification, and completion of certificate programs in X-Technologies and .NET Technologies from DePaul University.

 

From 2005-2009, Jeff was President of the Chicago Chapter of the Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA). Jeff is a corporate member of the Illinois Information Technology Association and an active member of: Project Management Institute, American Management Association, Association for Internet Professionals, American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the IEEE Computer Society.