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Home > About Atlantis > Company Information
In 1991, Atlantis Events held our first all-gay resort event with 300 guests at a Club Med Resort in Playa Blanca, Mexico. What started with the very simple idea of "a gay week on the beach with friends" has blossomed into a company producing all-gay cruise and resort vacations all over the world. Today, we are the largest company in the world dedicated to creating unique vacations for the gay and lesbian community.
Even now, hosting some 20,000 guests a year, Atlantis is dedicated to the same premise of creating a welcoming community that simply doesn't exist anywhere else: a place where you can relax, be yourself, and have fun in ways you never imagined.
Our staff comes from a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds. We have professional party planners, talent scouts, business executives, travel experts, and customer service specialists. We even have some straight people! What we all share is a passion for travel, and a commitment to ensuring our guests have their most memorable vacations ever.
We are a privately held company, independent in every way, and absolutely committed to providing the highest vacation standard to all our guests.
Rich founded Atlantis over 16 years ago, looking to create a unique place for the gay community to come together to play. Prior to founding Atlantis, Rich was a management consultant for strategy firm McKinsey & Company, specializing in the Media and Electronics industries. He has also worked in various freelance development and production jobs in Hollywood.
Rich holds a bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and came to California to attend USC Film School's graduate program. He flies around 250,000 miles a year, some of it for fun.
As Atlantis' Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Oscar is responsible for all marketing initiatives for Atlantis, from customer acquisition to brand strategy. A former management consultant and advertising executive, Oscar comes to Atlantis from Interbrand, the world's leading brand strategy firm, and a part of the Omnicom Group of companies, where he marketed everything from vodka to car insurance. (Not together, of course!)
Oscar holds two bachelor's degrees from Stanford University, in Economics and International Relations, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco-based Horizons Foundation, a foundation focused on the LGBT community in the Bay Area. In his spare time, Oscar enjoys the thrill of flying third-world airlines that are not accredited to fly to the US.
Steve is responsible for designing and creating the overall Atlantis guest experience on the company's cruise, resort and tour productions - from assembling and managing Team Atlantis to sourcing and hiring the company's specialized entertainers and DJs.
Steve has a background in public relations and strategic communications and has spent much of his career in the travel industry, most recently managing all international public relations for United Airlines. Prior to joining United, Steve built and managed successful media relations campaigns for Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance.
Steve has also led communications activities in Southern California for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, the nation's only nonprofit organization dedicated to lifting the ban on gays on the military.
Steve holds a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago, and has studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Steve speaks Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese, and has lived in Mexico, Spain and Japan. He spends what little free time he has trying to fill up the few remaining blank pages in his well-worn U.S. passport.
Don is responsible for producing everything on an Atlantis vacation from the first cocktail party to the final show in the theater. With a background that ranges from promoting major concerts in Southern California to managing websites, Don has worked for some of the nation's top companies, including Taco Bell, Prudential, and Verizon Wireless.
Don received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Cal State Fullerton, and his MBA from UC Irvine.
Team Atlantis
In addition to our full-time Los Angeles-based executive, reservations and production staff, Team Atlantis also includes part-time staff from all over the world who join us on location to extend the Atlantis personality and esprit de corps in everything we do. Our talented and creative Team Atlantis are your hosts for the week, and often your new friends. They're available to answer your questions, respond to suggestions, introduce you to a new friend, and help you make the most of your vacation. They're the ones that travel with you, ensuring everyone is comfortable and having a great time!
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