LCT will be comparing how five operators with less than two years in the industry build their success, including the challenges, failures, and achievements. Read more

Deborah Talbott

Debbie is a former purchasing director who after 20 years found herself unemployed in a recession. She immediately launched her new business from home starting with a single 120-inch stretch limousine and has since added a Lincoln Town Car Executive L to the fleet. Read more

Ricardo Garza

Ric, as he is known to friends, is 45 years old, married, and a proud parent of two boys and one girl. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science and spent many years working in the Houston Mayor’s Office as a certified conflict mediator and business developer. Read more

Becky Laramee

Along with her brother, John, Becky bought All Points Limousine in 2008. Their mother had spent time in the motorcoach and travel industry and had retired, but wasn’t quite ready for retirement. Needless to say, mother Bonnie is the office manager. Read more

Brad Gregory

Brad bought a 25-year-old limousine service in 2009 from a retiring owner. The company is located between Nashville, Tenn. and Bowling Green, Ky. He had no previous experience in the industry, working for the past decade for an automotive company. Read more

Georgia Berg

In July 2007, at the age of 44, Georgia became a long-distance business partner with her longtime Australian friend, Peter Smith. They met by chance while vacationing in Hawaii in 1993. During a 2003 visit to the U.S., Smith saw a Ford Excursion limousine and vowed to bring the first one to Australia. Read more

Jim Luff

LCT Contributing Editor Jim Luff is an operator from Bakersfield, Calif. After working as a chauffeur in the early 1990s, he joined The Limousine Scene in 1993 as general manager and later became a partner in the business. Read more

• Becky Laramee
• Brad Gregory
• Deborah Talbott
• Georgia Berg
• Jim Luff -- Host
• Ricardo Garza

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GEORGIA BERG, LIMOUSINE EXCURSIONS, PERTH, AUSTRALIA

In July 2007, at the age of 44, Georgia became a long-distance business partner with her longtime Australian friend, Peter Smith. They met by chance while vacationing in Hawaii in 1993. During a 2003 visit to the U.S., Smith saw a Ford Excursion limousine and vowed to bring the first one to Australia. It would be 2007 before the company actually had the vehicle ready for passenger service due to import red tape and the need to retrofit the vehicle to a right-hand drive configuration. Georgia purchased a Hummer limo and also shipped it to Australia, so the partnership was born. Georgia spent many years in the hospitality and charter aircraft industries. In each of those industries, she began as a front line person, such as a hotel desk clerk, and moved into a director position by the end of each career. Georgia answers phone calls from Australia in her “virtual office” in San Diego, Calif. Through Vonage, the Australian customers don’t even know they are placing a reservation in the U.S. via an Internet connection. Georgia handles all the orders and paperwork while Peter does the marketing in Perth, Australia. Their fleet consists of the two stretch SUV limousines.