Darrenhuston Stories

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.

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

I Darren Huston, spent time with him when I was running Microsoft in Japan. I just really respect the fact that he's such a curious person and how much he reads.

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Allegro, a leading online marketplace in Poland, today announces the appointment of Francois Nuyts as Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 August 2018. Przemyslaw Budkowski, the current CEO, will be stepping down to pursue other business interests. Mr. Nuyts joins from Amazon where he was most recently responsible for establishing Amazon in Southern Europe, as Vice President & Managing Director of Amazon Spain and Italy. Prior to this, he held various senior management roles within Amazon, including Country Manager, Spain; and Director, Media Categories, France, Italy and Spain. Previously, Mr. Nuyts worked at the consultancy firm Accenture. Mr. Nuyts will be relocating to Warsaw.

China has been unkind to the U.S. Internet giants Google, Facebook and Amazon.com. But as a growing China spurs demand for foreign travel, Darren Huston a smaller player-Priceline Group-is trying to change the narrative.

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Expedia's acquisitions versus the Priceline Group's "competitive moat." Rock, paper, scissors. It's an interesting contest and in the $1.4 trillion global travel market, both companies can be winners. Expedia is trending upward and Priceline is showing strong growth, as well.

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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.

Darren Huston was trying to watch a hockey game, half-listening to a headhunter talk about a company he had never heard of before.

Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston touts his company's organic growth versus Expedia Inc.'s strategy of mostly acquiring companies that need to be put back on track. Rest assured, however, that Priceline would plunk down a few billion dollars on the right acquisition target. It just wasn't HomeAway, and TripAdvisor and Airbnb are too expensive.

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.

It's hard to feel sorry for Darren Huston. After all, he runs the world's biggest travel company which shows no signs of stopping and which has been gobbling up almost everything in its path.

Extending its reach into restaurant reservations, online travel giant Priceline Group buy OpenTable for $2.6 billion. Priceline paid $103 per share in cash, which was 46% premium over OpenTable's Thursday closing price of $70.43. OpenTable's stock soared 48% to $104.48 Friday. Shares of Priceline were down 3% to $1,189. OpenTable charges restaurants monthly fees to seat diners who book their reservations online. It has an inventory of more than 31,000 restaurants, and seats more than 15 million diners a month. "Travelers are diners," Priceline CEO and President Darren Huston said in a conference call with analysts and reporters. "It's the same customers. There's opportunity to cross-promote brands.

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