Board of Directors

Payam Zamani has served as CEO and Chairman since August 2024. Mr. Zamani, age 53, is the founder, chairman and CEO of One Planet Group LLC, a closely held private equity firm focused on operating technology and media companies, an early-stage investor and a startup business incubator, established in 2015. In 1994, Mr. Zamani co-founded Autoweb.com. Ultimately becoming a catalyst in the way people bought and sold vehicles, Autoweb made its stock market debut on March 23, 1999. In 2001, Mr. Zamani launched Reply.com, a performance-based marketing company which in 2015 was relaunched as Buyerlink and is now owned by One Planet Group. In 2020, Mr. Zamani was honored as a Best CEO for Diversity by Comparably. He received the University of California, Davis Award of Distinction in 2018, and was granted the Tahirih Justice Center’s Hope Award in 2016. Mr. Zamani graduated from UC Davis with a degree in environmental toxicology in 1994.

Ann is the lead independent director on Inspirato’s Board of Directors. Ann Payne served as an Audit Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PWC”), a global accounting firm, from 1993 until her retirement in June 2019 and continued as a consultant until June 2020. At PwC, Ms. Payne provided professional services to domestic and international public and private corporations in the leisure, healthcare, and transportation sectors; led PwC’s first U.S. based audit outsourcing center from its opening to its maturity; and provided support services for PwC’s Audit Practice’s National Quality Office. Ms. Payne currently holds leadership roles on several non-profit boards. Since September 2020, Ms. Payne has served as Chairman of the Foundation Board for St. Thomas Aquinas High School. Since September 1980, Ms. Payne has been involved with and currently serves as the Treasurer and Board Member for Jack & Jill Children’s Center. Since January 1981, Ms. Payne has been a member of the Junior League of Greater Fort Lauderdale where she held numerous positions including President. Ms. Payne has been a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors since 2019 and served on the Board of Governors for the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants from 2003 to 2007. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Florida. Ms. Payne holds a B.S., summa cum laude, from Barry University, where she was honored in 2001 by the Alumni Association with a Professional Achievement Award. She also attended Yale University’s Women on Boards Program and earned a Scholar Certificate from the Kellogg School of Management’s Executive Education Program. She earned a CERT - Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight from Carnegie Mellon University, earned a Certificate from the University of South Florida’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace Program, and completed the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Virtual Director Professionalism Program. We believe that Ms. Payne is qualified to serve on the Board of Directors because of her extensive experience in auditing and accounting, along with her financial expertise.

David has served as President of Inspirato since 2013. He leads all operational aspects of Inspirato, with responsibility for the full life-cycle excellence of the membership experience. He specializes in helping service-intensive companies scale infrastructure and technology to drive rapid growth, while deepening the longevity and value of customer relationships. Prior to joining Inspirato, he served in a variety of senior executive roles with Exclusive Resorts, including Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Earlier in his career he spent 15 years with UPS, where he developed broad operational and logistical expertise, before serving as Vice President for Product and Operations at Visa and in leadership positions with two venture-backed startups.

Ms. May Samali is the Founder and CEO of Human Leadership Lab, a global leadership development company established in 2020. Previously, Ms. Samali was the CEO of Ventures at the High Resolves Group, leading global cross-functional teams and technology ventures in the education sector. She was the first employee at Urban Innovation Fund, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, from 2016-2018. Ms. Samali started her career as a corporate lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills in 2012. Ms. Samali holds a Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coaching Federation. She is a Fellow at the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School, an Adjunct Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT University's Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation and a Venture Partner at 77 Partners. Ms. Samali sits on John Monash Foundation’s Leadership Academy Advisory Board and Investible’s Climate Tech Fund Advisory Panel. Ms. Samali graduated from Harvard University with a Master in Public Policy where she studied as a John Monash Scholar. She also holds Bachelors degrees in Law and Economics from the University of Sydney.

Michael Armstrong has been the Executive Vice President, Worldwide Television Licensing & Operations at ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group (Nasdaq:VIAC), a leading global media and entertainment company since August 2018. He spent most of his career at ViacomCBS developing and launching revenue generating media brands around the world. He is a global media expert and business development and operations executive. Mr. Armstrong previously served as General Manager of BET Networks (A division of ViacomCBS) from July 2017 to August 2018 and launched and led the BET Networks International division for over 11 years. He was also Executive Vice President and General Manager, Revenue & Emerging Brands at Viacom International Media Networks from December 2014 to July 2017. Mr. Armstrong has served as an Independent Director of Canada Goose (NYSE:GOOS, TSX:GOOS) since January 2021. Mr. Armstrong is on the board of non-profit audio journalism company PRX and is a member of the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, Hampton University. He previously chaired the boards of Dance Theatre of Harlem and National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC). Mr. Armstrong is also a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He holds a B.S. from Hampton University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, where he was honored in 2012 with the Distinguished Young Alumni Award. We believe Mr. Armstrong is qualified to serve on the Board of Directors because of his strong executive and business operations skills.

Scott Berman has nearly 40 years of experience in hotel and resort development and operations and has provided consulting services in the United States, South America, Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean Basin, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Berman has consulted on a multitude of leisure and tourism related projects including hotels and resorts, resort residential ownership, recreational facilities such as spas and marinas, cruise ships, casinos, theme parks and other public assembly facilities. From 1992 through his retirement in 2022, Mr. Berman served in a variety of roles with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to joining PwC, Mr. Berman was the Director of Development for Hilton International where he was responsible for new hotel development and acquisition of existing properties in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. Mr. Berman is an active member of the American Hotel & Lodging Association's (AHLA) Leadership Roundtable and also serves on the Cornell Nolan School of Hotel Administration Dean's Advisory Board, the Cornell SC Johnson Leadership Council, and as a founding member of the Cornell University Center for Hospitality Research. He is on the Executive Board of the Greater Miami and the Beaches Hotel Association and a member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Resort Development Association. We believe that Mr. Berman is qualified to serve on the Board of Directors because of his extensive experience in hotel and resort development and operations.