Rickee Richardson is the President of R-Squared Publishing and Senior Editor of CruiseReport.com. She accompanies Mr. Dikmen on most of his review cruises (she is also his girlfriend of 10 years). Rickee has over 20 years of experience in the airline industry where she was a manager in the training departments of American Airlines and Southwest Airlines.

John Dikmen is President of Choreographics, Inc., a graphics design company in Midland, Texas. John was responsible for the cover design of The Perfect Cruise and supervised the process of getting the book into print.

Michael Czarnecki is President of Bon Voyage Cruises, Inc., in Nevada, Missouri. Michael and his wife, Sharon, are partners in a successful Internet-based cruise travel agency. Michael was the travel agent consultant for The Perfect Cruise.