The Team
35-year partnership. 31-year marriage. From a Packard Bell and FrontPage to 17+ live products, constitutional AI governance, and three decades of infrastructure that endures.
Gene Salvatore
28 years building category-defining infrastructure. From pioneering Rhode Island's first searchable real estate database in 1998 to senior leadership roles at Adgrafix (acquired for $22M+), Gene has consistently built the standards that industries adopt.
Dual-Stack Expertise: 18 years operating legacy datacenter infrastructure at GreenTree (99.99% uptime) alongside 12+ years as Director of Support & Deployment Engineering for enterprise RTLS platforms—the rare combination of heritage hardware discipline and modern cloud-native velocity.
Current: Architect of 17+ live products spanning SaaS, security tools, AI governance frameworks, and real-time location services. 1,500+ hotel nights of domain expertise driving PointsTracker.
Maureen Salvatore
The operational backbone and strategic co-pilot for 35 years. Maureen has been the essential partner in every major decision, infrastructure build, and strategic pivot since 1997.
While Gene architects systems, Maureen ensures they survive contact with reality. Her contributions span financial operations, strategic planning, client relationships, and the critical operational discipline that kept infrastructure running through the Dot-Com Bust, 2008 Crash, and pandemic.
Reseller & Affiliate Expertise: Managed complex partner ecosystems across multiple hosting operations with tens of thousands of affiliates. This experience directly informs distribution strategy across the current product portfolio.
The 35-Year Partnership
Married 31 years. Business partners for 35. Traveling together since 1989. Gene and Maureen have built category-defining infrastructure together since before marriage, surviving three market cycles and multiple industry transformations.
This isn't a founder + employee dynamic. This is a symmetric partnership—two people who have made every major strategic decision together, weathered every crisis side-by-side, and built the operational discipline that sustains 99.99% uptime across 18 years.
Beyond Business: NASCAR Championship Weekend in Phoenix, exploring the country in their RV, and documenting travels at GeneTravels.com.
📈 Community Impact
We're not just developers—we're travelers, too. Our insights come from years of on-the-road experience and a genuine passion for helping others get the most from their journeys. These numbers are real, from real users on the PointsTracker platform.
Live data from the PointsTracker platform
Traveling Together Since 1989
Gene and Maureen have been exploring together for over 35 years, accumulating 1,500+ hotel nights, countless flight segments, and reviews across every major hotel, airline, and dining program. That hands-on experience is the foundation for everything we build.
GeneTravels.com is our home for honest, unbiased reviews of hotels, flights, lounges, restaurants, concerts, motorsports events, RV travel, and more.
What We Review
- Hotel Stay Reviews
- RV Travel Reviews
- Flight Reviews
- Motorsports Event Reviews
- Lounge Reviews
- Rewards Points Tips & Tricks
- Dining Reviews
- Technology News & Reviews
The 35-Year Journey
The Origin Story
A Packard Bell computer and Microsoft FrontPage—Maureen's Christmas gift to Gene. She pitched the Rhode Island MLS on a searchable website. Won the deal. Secured RILiving.com. Together, they built Rhode Island's first searchable real estate database—before MLS nationwide had this.
Adgrafix: Senior Leadership in $22M+ Acquisition
Started as top affiliates at Adgrafix, then recruited to senior leadership. Gene led infrastructure and business development. Maureen managed an international reseller program with tens of thousands of affiliates. Together, they helped grow the company from negligible revenue to multi-million annually.
In 2001, right before the dot-com bust, the company was acquired for $22M+. As senior leadership—not owners—their contribution was operational, not equity-based.
Vertical Markets & Datacenter Operations
Built the second venture focused on vertical market hosting. Bootstrapped to 8 racks of servers. That infrastructure became capital collateral to merge with Boston Datacenters. Turned the combined operation profitable and executed a successful sale to TierPoint in 2007.
GreenTree Hosting Founded
As part of the TierPoint sale, Gene negotiated a strategic carve-out: the multi-tenant servers and custom control panel for $40,000. They put up $25,000 and paid the remaining $15,000 from first month revenues. That $40K investment has generated multi-million in revenue with 99.99% uptime for 18 years.
Enterprise RTLS & Dual-Stack Leadership
12 years ascending to Director of Support & Deployment Engineering. Designing, engineering, deploying, and supporting complex Real-Time Location Services (RTLS) across hospitality, hospitals, and healthcare environments—from site survey through validation and ongoing support. Parallel to GreenTree, proving the rare dual-stack expertise: heritage hardware + modern cloud.
The Intelligence Era: 17+ Live Products
35 years of compounding learnings reached critical mass. In a matter of weeks, the platform exploded from 2 products to 17+ live, deployed applications spanning every layer of modern infrastructure:
SaaS Platforms: PointsTracker (600K+ distribution), LogBot
(forensic log analysis), CompliancePro (enterprise training).
Security Tools: DNSBot (DNS health), HijackRadar (domain
security scanning).
AI Governance: AOS—constitutional governance framework
with deterministic enforcement, cryptographic accountability, and a humanitarian
license protecting 40 categories.
Infrastructure: Cathedral Network (15 live nodes),
Git Legacy, AOS Evidence Repository.
Content: GeneTravels—authentic travel journalism
from 1,500+ hotel nights.
This isn't a pivot. It's the natural culmination of three decades of institutional discipline meeting agentic execution velocity.
The Salvatore Standard
- Complementary Strengths: Gene builds. Maureen operationalizes. Both strategize together.
- Shared Risk Tolerance: Comfortable operating in high-stakes environments for decades.
- Mutual Respect: Every major decision is made together. No ego. No hierarchy.
- Operational Discipline: 99.99% uptime doesn't happen by accident. It's cultural.
- Long-Term Thinking: 25-year domain holds. 18-year infrastructure operations. Institutional timelines.