Our Founder

Katrina A. Garnett
Founder, President and CEO

Katrina Garnett is a well-known Silicon Valley CEO, software developer, Forbes and Fortune celebrity, and for more than a decade the chief trip planner for the Garnett family of five.

Katrina was born in Australia, and educated in American and European schools. She always believed world experiences should be a part of her children’s development. From the time her first child was less than one year old, Katrina has planned yearly travels for her family. Now with three children, all in school, she schedules four family trips each year to coincide with school vacations. Africa has been a key destination with trips to Egypt and Morocco, Tanzania, Botswana and South Africa. In Asia, the family has traveled to China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Turkey. Of course European travel has often been part of the Garnett itinerary, with several trips to England, France, Italy and Greece. A trip to South America took them to Buenos Aires, the glacier’s of Patagonia, and Brazil’s Iguacu Falls. This past winter break took them back to Egypt and then onto Jordan, India and Dubai.

Katrina was the Founder, Chairman and President/CEO of Crossworlds Software Inc, now a part of IBM. Starting in 1996, she built the company into a global enterprise with annual revenues of over $100m and 450 employees. Her technology career includes ten years as a leading executive at Oracle and Sybase. As a software industry luminary, Ms. Garnett was featured twice on the cover of Forbes magazine, selected by Fortune magazine as CEO of one of their 25 top startup technology companies in 1997, and regularly interviewed by leading TV shows such as CNBC and CNN. She holds several software patents, and degrees from SUNY and Webster University in Switzerland.

When not traveling or planning the next family trip, her favorite hobby is competitive Hunter/Jumper horseback riding.