Title: Darren Huston, Chief Executive Officer
Born: January 3, 1966, Hope, British Columbia
Education: BS in economics, Trent University; MA in Economics University of British Columbia; MBA, Harvard Business School
Early Marker: Vice president at Starbucks responsible for acquisitions and new product development.
Big Idea: The Microsoft executive stepped up to the top job at Priceline in January 2014 after running the group's main revenue generator, Amsterdam-based Booking.com. Since 2011 he has been tackling the challenges of its main advertising outlet, Google, increasingly competing with it for travel-related bookings, of expanding its hospitality-related services, such as with its acquisition of OpenTable, and of retaining its customers as they migrate from desktop to mobile devices.
A wave of the Future: M-commerce, App-economy, experiential economy
Full details available @
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/06/darren-r-huston.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/06/13/priceline-is-buying-opentable-for-103share-in-cash-or-about-26-billion.html
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Short StoryDarren Huston, Chief Executive Officer Born: January 3, 1966, Hope, British Columbia Education: BS in economics, Trent University; MA in Economics, University of British Columbia; MBA, Harvard Business School Early Marker: Vice president at Starbuck...
