Meet the team

Julie Kirby

TOUR COORDINATOR

Julie brings her wealth of experience and efficiency to organising all our tours. She is GeoCultura’s friendly voice liaising over every element of every tour, from accommodation, to restaurant and coach bookings, making sure numbers are right and that everything’s in place, bringing to life the excellent ideas of our guides and planners. She’s also at the end of the phone for travellers wanting more information or simply to talk through options.

Rich Cobb

BUSINESS SYSTEMS MANAGER

Rich is the big cheese of all things tech. He keeps GeoCultura’s business operations running smoothly, whether it’s communications, website, training or behind-the-scenes programming. He’s also in charge of the purse strings and makes sure our suppliers are all paid on time. Basically, everything we’re able to do is thanks to Rich’s know-how.

Pam Foden

CEO

Pam Foden has broad experience in tourism, hospitality and communication. Upon graduation from Kings College London with a BA (Hons) in French. She taught French for a few years, but a keen interest in hospitality and tourism led to setting up a small hotel with restaurant, which then led to an executive role running a Destination Management organisation. After several years working with tourism businesses at county level, she joined the national tourist board, VisitBritain, in a mainly industry-facing role, supporting accommodation providers and visitor attractions, developing quality assurance schemes, training and quality-raising initiatives.

Pam is hot on expectations being met and is full of ideas about how to ensure the very best for our travellers. Pam looks after our partnerships with travel advisors and destinations and picks up the phone to answer enquiries if Julie or Jasmine are busy.

Interests include sailing and cooking.

Bob Petty

Tour Researcher

GeoCultura Limited has a subsidiary company, GeoCultura Inc. Bob Petty is one of the three directors. Having worked numerous projects in the Americas, Middle East, Europe, Africa, SE Asia and Australia, Bob Petty has more than 20 years’ experience working with US majors in both domestic and international roles. He was Technical Manager at Nautilus for 15 years and, as such, was responsible for developing, administering and overseeing a portfolio of several hundred geoscience and engineering courses. In this role he also developed the first robust and integrated training program for the exploration and exploitation of unconventional resources.