About

Deborah’s undergraduate degree in business and marketing led her to be one of the first female sales representative positions in the formerly male dominated IBM Office Products Division. After a few years of successful corporate sales with IBM in Topeka, Kansas, she founded her own travel agency, Travel King, in Enid Oklahoma. That company dominated the business in the area, making her company one of the top 100 travel agencies in the Western states, and earned her an ambassador spot to the 1980 Moscow Olympics, where she represented the US Travel Industry. She also traveled extensively throughout the world leading tour groups as well as for her many personal international contacts. She sold that company at its peak and in 1986 and moved permanently to Naples, Florida, where she enjoyed golf and both power and sail boating. Deb was then recruited for the Collier County Economic Development Council. Her responsibility was as liaison to the commercial and Hollywood film industry.