Ms. Rollinson brings 15 years of corporate event planning and volunteer project management experience to Xola. She focuses on projects connecting corporate, association and business groups with community based volunteer travel initiatives around the globe.

Before joining the Xola team, Ms. Rollinson was the Corporate Relations Manager for Volunteer San Diego, a volunteer action center of the Hands On Network. There she connected corporate groups visiting San Diego with local non-profits and managed group volunteer team-building activities for corporate groups sometimes with hundreds of volunteers. She successfully incorporated volunteer team-building into conference agendas for companies such as SAP America, MetLife, Cisco, CIGNA and United Health Group.

Prior to that, she held the position of Director of Operations for an event-planning firm where her responsibilities included planning and executing high-end incentive travel and corporate events for corporate clients, including MCI Worldcom, Invitrogen and Gateway Computers.

Elise is the Corporate Social Responsibility Liaison for the San Diego Chapter of Meeting Professionals International. She holds a B.S. from San Diego State University in International Business, with an emphasis on Latin American Studies and Spanish. A current resident of San Diego, California, Elise has also spent time in Costa Rica and Spain studying language and culture.