Riptide Communications
  Riptide Communications
 

Doug Lockyer
David Papworth

  1996 - 2000
douglockyer64@yahoo.com

Doug then brokered a relationship between VISA and SkyMall in which SkyMall joined electronic fulfillment and e-commerce partners in the proposition for a VISA-branded Internet shopping portal.

By the middle of 1999, Riptide and SkyMall developed a DVD strategy to place interactive content in the seat backs of airlines along with the SkyMall catalog.

Only the collapse of the Internet economy in mid 2000 prevented the successful launch of this program.