Gennady Podolsky, world-renowned travel expert and managing partner for Vega International Travel Services, is an innovative problem-solver who specializes in helping travelers—no matter how complex their travel plans.
Fluent in five languages—Russian, English, Ukrainian, French and Spanish—Gennady Podolksy wields an encyclopedic knowledge of air reservations and is known for problem solving under pressure. From helping a client in Azerbaijan in 2002 flee the Russian mafia to helping reunite a family across the Atlantic, there are few travel problems too complex for Podolsky.
Gennady Podolsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and came to the United States in 1993 to study at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He opened his first travel agency shortly after. He and an IT-savvy friend created a proto-Expedia, with the real one following in 1996.
Entrepreneur and problem-solver, Podolsky still relishes the challenge of getting clients the cheapest possible fares for the most complicated of trips.
