Darren Huston (born 3 January 1966) is a Canadian businessman was the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Priceline, Currently he is a CEO of BlackPines Capital Advisors. Residence - Amsterdam, Netherlands Nationality - Canadian Alma mater - Trent University, University of British Columbia, Harvard Business School Salary - US$21,966,094 (total compensation) Successor - Jeffery H. Boyd

For over three decades, Paul Michael Viollis has dedicated his career to the protection of our country as well as the shareholder value of the businesses he has navigated to the pinnacle of their respective vertical markets.

Darren Huston was trying to watch a hockey game, half-listening to a headhunter talk about a company he had never heard of before. But as the headhunter went on, the then-45-year-old executive in charge of Microsoft's global consumer and online businesses tuned out the arena noise and began listening to what he thought was an impossible story.

I Darren Huston, a Canadian businessman. I had born in Hope, British Columbia. I had completed my BS in economics from Trent University, MA in economics from the University of British Columbia, MBA from Harvard Business School. From my childhood, my aim was to become a business person. Business is not that easy, for business, you need keen knowledge and observation that what is in trend. Well, I am not writing this to talk about business. I want to talk about some interesting facts about Canada.

While Microsoft Advertising was busy on Wednesday helping T-Mobile stream a live Ellie Goulding concert across three screens, a first for both companies, CEO Steve Ballmer was thinking of the next big opportunity in advertising.

Hello from Trent," I say. It's late January and, talking to a Trent alum who's work-ing abroad, I figure I can jog a few memories and start a conversation by adding: "It's going to negative 16 degrees tonight. Do you recall those chilly walks across the wind-whipped Faryon Bridge?" Darren Huston '85 chuckles with instant recognition and replies, "It doesn't get that cold in Tokyo. It's five degrees celsius here." From his office in the heart of Tokyo on a Thursday morning, the president and CEO of Microsoft Japan is showing his Canadian roots. Darren Huston, the Trent grad with an honours B.A. in economics, isn't just comfortable talking about the weather; he's also about as gracious and self-effacing as an all-round Canadian guy can get. And, oddly enough, he uses similar terms to describe the new culture in which he finds himself immersed. "Japan is a wonderful place and almost Canadian in many respects," he says over the phone more than 10,000 kilometres and several time zones away. "Individuals in Japan are polite, understated, and self-critical. They see themselves as being in one boat more than in North American society. Everyone's lives here are very symbiotic. If anyone fails, it feels like they're failing family. As a foreigner, you can never really be a part of that."This might seem like pretty deep talk at 9 a.m. for the North American businessman guiding the destiny of Japan's number one brand and its 2500 employees. But there's an easy-going quality to conversation with Darren Huston.

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Darren Huston, Our company was born from a desire to make life better for property managers - the busiest people we've ever met. Our early days of managing the challenges of guest access revealed a much greater need.