|
Our core zip line canopy tour team is drawn from a variety of fields, including: business management, finance, marketing, risk management, challenge courses, canopy tours, corporate training, camping, and more.
 |
Michael R. Smith, President
As the President of ArborTrek, Michael is dedicated to providing high-value, small group and family experiences that foster an appreciation for natural world, inspire and rejuvenate the mind, and educate the community on the values of wild places. Michael brings more than 18 years experience in the challenge course industry as a facilitator, builder, manager, trainer, and business consultant and holds degrees in Wilderness Leadership and Master of Training and Development. He has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies as a business consultant, authored and published climbing guides, and worked as a Chief Field Instructor for the Outward Bound School. Through his work as zip line builder and canopy tour consultant, he has helped to design and launch 13 zip-line canopy tours in the United States and Canada, and has consulted with more than two dozen other zip line canopy tour operations on business planning, feasibility, staff development, and marketing. Michael is the moderator of Zipline Nirvana, an online Social Networking site and global directory of zip lines and canopy tours aimed at promoting the growth of the industry.
|
 |
Michael Beber, Chairman
Michael provides financial and related insight and support to the ArborTrek team. Michael was born and raised in Toronto, graduated from the University of Western Ontario and is a Canadian Chartered Accountant. Michael is best known in Toronto and Canada as a forensic accountant where he was a senior manager at KPMG, a partner at BDO and subsequently was a co-founder and principal of Lindquist Avey, an international forensic and investigative accounting firm. Beber, now a resident of Rye, in Westchester County, New York, possesses more than 25 years of significant experience in developing market-leading intelligence and risk/data management businesses for major corporations from his years as a strategic and operating executive with companies including Kroll, one of the leading risk consulting companies, Marsh and McLennan, the world’s largest risk manager, MidOcean Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm and, most recently, Altegrity, an international investigations and security company. Beber’s love of zip line canopy tours and entrepreneurial pursuits led him to Mike Smith, one of the most recognized leaders in the industry where they forged their mission – to build ArborTrek into the premier provider of eco-adventures in North America.
|
|
