QGuide Founders

About QGuide

QGuide.com is the world's first truly comprehensive guide to Gay Travel – as seen through the eyes (and cameras) of a Community of Gay Travellers. It's all here: bars, clubs, parties, events, food, tours, social groups, hotels, fitness, culture, shopping, arts . . . with maps to help you find your way!

Member reviews, travel blogs and profiles allow you to share tips and meet guys with similar interests when you travel.

QGuide.com -- a website where YOUR experiences are the focus. It's a place where you can network, share your stories, plan the best holidays possible and enjoy interesting travels beyond just the tourist spots. And hopefully even meet up with other people who share your interests.

We want QGuide.com to be one of our finest moments – something our professional careers have prepared us for, and something we can personally be very proud of! 

If you're a member, that means offering you the best travel information and social networking experience possible, and that as we develop, expand and refine our site you'll want to tell all of your friends!  If you're a business sponsor, that means offering you the best opportunity in all of cyberspace to reach Gay travellers before and during their travels to your country and city.

Australia is just our first stop: the USA is in development, and the rest of the world is up next!

Jack's 20 years of international work experience spans a variety of industries including publishing, advertising, mail-order, retail, education and IT.  He has worked in the UK, Australia, Europe, Middle East & Africa, with core skills in procurement, project management and IT.  His most recent responsibilities included providing strategic direction and project management for the installation of IT networks and offices across more than thirty offices throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. 

Time Life Video & Books, Sydney: Production Manager: managed print, video, and DVD production; client liaison with advertising agencies and reprography houses; directed TV advertisements

International Masters Publishers, London: Production Manager: managed print quality standards, schedules, costs; development projects through early stages with overseas offices & DM campaign management.

The MicroMarketing Group, Sydney: Production & Studio Manager: managed print quality standards, schedules, costs & DM campaign management.

Lend-Lease Europe, Madrid: IT Director: Europe, Middle East and Africa. Project Managed IT installations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; prepared long and short-term IT strategic plans for over 30 International sites, led application systems planning, budgeting, acquisitions and acceptance of new equipment; managed annual budgets and optimized costs

Client work included: BP Australia, Optus Telecommunications, Colonial State Bank Australia, Shell, Australia; Cisco, Hilton, Eads Spain, Telefónica Spain, Tres Aguas Shopping Centre, Spain; Brescia Hospital, Italy; Kuwait Petroleum Co., Kuwait; Dubai Metro Transport, Dubai; Lulu Island, Abu Dhabi; Bovis Lend Lease, Johannesburg.

Languages: native English and French; fluency in Spanish and Italian

Hobbies: Travelling, Sailing, Scuba Diving, 4WD exploring, new technologies.

About the Founders - Scollay Petry

Scollay's 20 years of work experience includes large scale IT systems development, marketing, research, analysis, sales and entrepreneurship.

America Online, Virginia: joined this company in 1993 when it was very small, well before “WWW” or “DOT COM” were even available.  As the “Data God” he launched the company's first Market Research Department; developed the first online industry reporting to merge actual online usage with demographics; developed the first advertising rate card for what would quickly turn into a $2billion revenue stream; architect of AdServer technology to deliver 1Billion+ online ads per day; and commissioned first Gay/Lesbian demographics study with Simmons and PlanetOut.com

Calypso.com, Virginia: founder of a VC-backed company ($6 million raised); technology powered AOL “Free Time” loyalty program; sold company to Washington, DC marketing agency.

Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Washington, DC and MBG Telecom, New York, NY: telecommunications financial software development and voice network cost optimization for large corporate and government organizations.

Client work included: US Treasury and State Departments, Secret Service, Ford Motor International, Mobil Oil, Philips Electronics, Wall Street firms.

Hobbies: Travelling, photography, shares/stock trading, high-end audio, wine.