Co-founder and CEO
Airbnb

The story is famous: As starving students, Brian Chesky and his Rhode Island School of Design roommates thought they might make extra cash by charging guests to sleep...

Founder and CEO
SilverRail Technologies 

SilverRail Technologies CEO Aaron Gowell co-founded the rail-ticketing technology platform in 2009 and has since been named to a slew of “who’s who in...

Co-Founder/Chief Technology Officer
Hipmunk

When Hipmunk Co-Founder and CTO Steve Huffman was in a long-distance relationship, he was often confounded by the mess he’d find when he would go...

Chief Technology Officer
KAYAK

KAYAK’s TV commercials tout the travel search engine’s ease of use. Chief Technology Officer Giorgos Zacharia wants to make KAYAK even more user-friendly. The...

Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning
Priceline Group

With a background in asset management and investment banking, EVP Glenn Fogel heads up the...

Chief Executive Officer
Viator

Viator CEO Barrie Seidenberg joined the company in 2005 after a stint from 1995 to 2000 as Chief Marketing Officer at Preview Travel, one of the first online travel ventures,...

Co-founder and Chief Strategy and Development Officer 
HomeAway  

Chief Strategy and Development Officer Carl Shepherd co-founded HomeAway with CEO Brian Sharples in 2005. The company’s acquisitions...

Chief Technology Officer
eDreams Odigeo

While companies like Expedia and Travelzoo continue to bet on lodging for their revenue streams, eDreams Odigeo — Europe’s third largest online travel agency —...

Founder and CEO
Travel.ru 

Founder and CEO of Travel.ru Marina Kolesnik is a serial entrepreneur with a great track record. Before Travel.ru, the graduate of the Harvard Business School and former McKinsey...

Chief Executive Officer
AirAsia Go

Seemingly everyone in the marketing end of the travel industry wants to make inroads into Asia. However, not too many people looking...

Chief Marketing Officer
Booking.com

American hotel websites typically put price before customer experience. Booking.com entered the U.S. market with its main objective being to get “booking right,” to...

Vice President, Digital Marketing
KAYAK

Emily Scott brought both strong marketing and tech experience to KAYAK, the travel search site co-founded by former Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz...

Chief Marketing Officer
TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor’s Chief Marketing Officer Barbara Messing may speak for a brand that speaks to over 200 million unique users in 21 languages every month, but...

Senior Vice President Global Marketing
Expedia

Owners and employees of small businesses have to travel, too. David Doctorow, Senior Vice President Global Marketing, Brand Expedia, found a...