Maryles Casto

Maryles Casto is founder and CEO of Casto The Travel Company, the largest privately-owned travel management company in Northern California. Founded in 1974, Casto The Travel Company is in the top 50 companies in the industry nationwide. Casto The Travel Company has offices in California and the Philippines.

Casto is also founder and chairman of Fulfillment Solutions Inc., a global outsource company that provides 24-hour management services for other travel companies. She also owns two other tour companies, Rascals in Paradise and Singles Travel Company, that specialize in family-oriented and singles travel respectively.

Casto built her business from a $3,000 initial investment to four companies with over $70 million in annual revenue under her leadership. She has been the subject of books, studies on women entrepreneurs, and a Harvard Business School case study on continuing success in industries impacted by the Internet.

Casto served as vice chair for 2010–11 term of the Commonwealth Club of California Board of Governors, and also serves on the boards of directors of the Bring Me a Book Foundation, the California Museum, the Silicon Valley Symphony, and the Ritz Carlton Advisory Board. She previously served as chair of the board of directors of the San Jose Cleveland Ballet.

Casto is active in international diplomacy. She has served as international chair of the Committee of 200 (C200), was a participant in the 2006 Cairo Global Women’s Summit, and the C200 Vietnam Women’s Summit in April 2005 in Hanoi. She was also a member of the U.S. Presidential Delegation to attend the Inauguration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, of the Republic of the Philippines, on June 30, 2004.

Casto has won Top-Agency awards from United, American, and other airlines. She is a member of the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame, has received the Commonwealth Club of California Distinguished Citizen Award, the C200 Entrepreneurial Award, and the Silicon Valley Business Journal Woman of Excellence award. She has also been recognized as one of the 100 most influential Filipina women in the U.S. by the Filipina Women’s Network.