Air Charter Guide Team

Frank Craven, Publisher of the Air Charter Guide
Frank Craven was born in Chicago, Illinois. At age eight his family moved to Overland Park Kansas, and his parents still live in the same house where he grew up less than a mile from the offices of Penton Business Media. In his teens, Frank was a successful motocross racer and traveled the country to further his racing career.

Prior to joining Penton, Frank held positions at MarketLink, a used aircraft marketing company, and was a full time flight instructor for many years. Frank joined Penton Publishing in 1995 as Associate Editor of the Aircraft Bluebook Price Digest, a price guide for used aircraft. Shortly thereafter he was promoted to Editor of AC-U-KWIK FBO and Airport Directories. He was appointed to Group Publisher of the Aviation Division in 2007 which included the Air Charter Guide.

His interests include spending time with his family at a lake cabin that he and his father built. He also enjoys scuba diving and holds a Divemaster rating. He also is a loyal NASCAR fan and is a commentator for a weekly nationally syndicated NASCAR radio show produced in Kansas City. Frank is a certified Emergency Medical Technician and has taught EMT classes at Johnson County Community College. Frank holds a degree in Aviation Management from Central Missouri State in Warrensburg, Missouri and is a current FAA certified flight instructor. You can reach Frank at 913-967-1729 or at frank.craven@penton.com.

Francine Eladhari, Associate Publisher
Francine grew up in the town of L'Isle Adam, northwest of Paris, France. After getting her professional start during a seven-year stint as a retail buyer in France and the UK, Eladhari lived and worked in Kuwait and Iraq in 1980-86. When she and her family moved to the United States in 1986, Eladhari started her own import business, which she operated for four years. While completing a BS in business at Northeastern University and an MA in human resources management at Emmanuel College she joined The Air Charter Guide in 1990, where her French roots and international experience were essential to the expansion of the Guide's editorial, circulation, and sales programs from North America to Europe and beyond. She left the Guide but deepened her knowledge of the aviation and transportation industry during a five-year tenure at the Department of Transportation's Volpe Center in Cambridge as a technical recruiter and lead member of the DOT's "Tutoring, Educating and Mentoring (TEAM) Effort." The Air Charter Guide and its clients have benefited from her expertise in organizational development, tri-lingual language skills, and international experience since 1998.

Bettina Gentile, Product Director
Bettina grew up in the Schleswig-Holstein town of Plön in northern Germany. She holds a masters degree in German from Technische UniversitSt Carola-Wilhelmina and a second in Art from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. After graduation, a love of travel led her and three friends to embark on a two-year wanderlust trek across the United States in a school bus they purchased and converted for the trip themselves. An American journey she continues today as wife and mother. In 1994 Gentile joined The Air Charter Guide, where her native German skills became the linguistic key to the Guide's expansion into central Europe. In addition to her editorial and sales outreach in North America and Germany, Gentile is also the Guide's senior editor, and the depth and credibility of the Guide's unsurpassed database of air charter operations owes much to her meticulous attention to detail.

Michele Markarian, Director, Brand Development
Michele has been, among other things, a public relations Specialist and Account Executive for Graham Communications, a news reporter for WXKS-FM, an Account Executive for Allison Associates, and Account Executive and Staff Writer for M. Kennedy Publishing, a headhunter for Corporate World, a Staff Writer for Houghton Mifflin, a Staff Editor for Ligature, Inc., a research assistant for a reference book, a Director for the Armenian Relief Society, a high school theater teacher, college English teacher, and co-owner of a marketing and public relations agency. Michele has a BA in English from Emmanuel College and a MA in English literature from the University of Massachusetts/Boston. She joined the Air Charter Guide in 1994.

Bob Bruosta, Sales Manager
Bob grew up in Ohio, where he graduated in Business Administration from The University of Cincinnati. After graduating, he stayed in Cincinnati and began his professional career in advertising at Northlich Stolley Lawarre. There he held positions in media buying working on the Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati Bell, and the Grand Victoria Casino and Resort accounts. In 1997, he left to take a position in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio with the Wyse Advertising agency working as a Broadcast Media Buyer on the Applebee’s account. In 2001, he relocated to Boston, MA and brought his years of advertising and marketing-related skills to The Air Charter Guide.

Caroline Luis, Audience Marketing Manager
Caroline was born in Berkeley, California and lived in Sussex, England and Great Falls, Virginia before moving to Massachusetts. In 2004 she received her B.A. in Art History from Harvard College where she also studied history. She began working at The Air Charter Guide the following October and is now in her fourth year with the company. Previously, she’d researched for Lets Go Travel Guide in Northwest Spain, and she speaks Spanish and French.

Carl Russell, Graphic Designer
After graduating from Merrimack College and Boston College and completing military service, Carl began his career at RCA’s Aerospace Systems Division in Burlington, Massachusetts, as a technical writer, senior project specialist and editor of the company newspaper. After several years he joined his brother’s advertising agency, The G/R Group, in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he had responsibilities in media, sales, and graphic arts. Soon he became graphic production manager as the company grew to over 70 employees. Twenty-five years later his brother sold the business and started a small company with Carl called Mountain Industries, also in Watertown, developing performance products for the specialty bicycle industry. After seven years, his brother retired to Arizona and Carl joined The Air Charter Guide in 2000 where he is currently a graphic designer.

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