Leadership

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Booking Holdings Management

Glenn D. Fogel

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Glenn Fogel has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President since January 2017 and the Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com since June 2019. Previously, he served as our Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning from November 2010 to December 2016 and as our Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, from March 2009 to December 2016. Mr. Fogel joined us in February 2000. Prior to that, he was a trader at a global asset management firm and prior to that was an investment banker specializing in the air transportation industry. Mr. Fogel is a member of the New York State Bar (retired).

Peter J. Millones, Jr.

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Peter J. Millones Jr. has been our General Counsel since January 2001 and our Executive Vice President since April 2003. He previously served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel from March 2000 to January 2001 and as our Corporate Secretary from January 2001 to April 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Millones was with the law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP. As part of his responsibilities, Mr. Millones oversees our executive compensation programs.

David I. Goulden

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

David I. Goulden joined us on March 1, 2018 after leaving Dell Technologies in February 2018 and is our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.  Prior to joining Booking Holdings, Mr. Goulden served in numerous senior executive positions at EMC Corporation and then Dell Technologies (following EMC’s acquisition by Dell), including as Dell’s President, Infrastructure Solutions Group (beginning in 2016), EMC’s Chief Executive Officer of Information Infrastructure (2014-2016), EMC’s President and Chief Operating Officer (2012-2014) and EMC’s Chief Financial Officer (2006-2014).

Paulo Pisano

Chief Human Resources Officer

Paulo Pisano serves as the Chief Human Resources Officer of Booking Holdings Inc. and as Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer of Booking.com. Prior to joining Booking.com in early 2020, Paulo was the Chief People Officer at Galp, a globally integrated energy company. Previously, he served as the SVP and Chief Talent Officer at Pearson, following his post as Head of Organizational Effectiveness at Barclays. Paulo holds an MBA from INSEAD and an NED diploma through the Financial Times.

Booking Holdings Brand Leaders

Glenn D. Fogel, Booking.com

Chief Executive Officer

Glenn D. Fogel is Booking.com’s Chief Executive Officer, responsible for the company’s global strategy and operations, including the management of all business units within the organization. Glenn also serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Booking Holdings, the parent company of Booking.com and other digital brands, a position he has held since January 2017. Prior to his current roles, Glenn served as Booking Holdings’ Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning, where he led major strategic initiatives including the key acquisitions of Booking.com, KAYAK, OpenTable, RentalCars.com and Agoda.com. He also served as the Executive Vice President of the Corporate Development division, responsible for worldwide mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances. Prior to joining Booking Holdings in February 2000, Glenn was a trader at a global asset management firm and prior to that, he began his career as an investment banker specializing in the air transportation industry. Mr. Fogel is a retired member of the New York State Bar. Fogel is a graduate of Harvard Law School and earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Brett Keller, Priceline

Chief Executive Officer

Brett Keller is the Chief Executive Officer of Priceline. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer of Priceline and prior to that, as Chief Marketing Officer. Mr. Keller joined Priceline in 1999 and has played a central role in growing the business and evolving the brand’s product and go-to-market strategies for its diverse set digital offerings.

Steve Hafner, KAYAK

Chief Executive Officer

Steve Hafner is the co-founder and CEO of KAYAK and oversees our OpenTable business. His responsibilities include establishing the vision and direction for the company, building a world-class team, and guiding the development of KAYAK and OpenTable. A seasoned executive, Mr. Hafner brings extensive knowledge of marketing, e-commerce and online travel to his position at KAYAK and OpenTable. Mr. Hafner helped found Orbitz Inc., the online travel agency site, in November 1999. As a member of the original start-up team, he helped develop and implement the company’s business strategy.

John W. Brown, Agoda

Chief Executive Officer

John W. Brown has been Agoda’s Chief Executive Officer since June 2018. Mr. Brown served as Agoda’s Chief Operating Officer from 2014-2018, and as Agoda’s Chief Product Officer from 2010-2014. Mr. Brown joined Agoda in 2010 from the Boston Consulting Group, where he operated as a Principal in Boston and in Bangkok. Mr. Brown also served as an Economic Advisor to the Minister of Commerce and Industry for the Government of Afghanistan. Mr. Brown holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School.

Debby Soo, OpenTable

Chief Executive Officer

Debby Soo is the Chief Executive Officer of OpenTable, bringing expertise in product-first commercialization, strategic partnerships and international growth. She has spent the past ten years building KAYAK’s travel commercial team, establishing the APAC business, and then overseeing global business development for both KAYAK and OpenTable. In addition to managing the company’s revenue-generating activities and relationships with airlines, hotels and car renters, Debby has worked in various roles across business development and product marketing, including launching KAYAK Brazil and KAYAK Canada, running KAYAK’s affiliate marketing program, and mobile marketing activities. Debby is a graduate of Stanford University and has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Board of Directors

Robert J. Mylod Jr.

Chair of Board

Robert J. Mylod Jr. has served on our Board since May 2017, as Chair of our Board since June 2020 and is a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Mylod is the Managing Partner of Annox Capital Management, a private investment firm that he founded in 2013. From 1999 to 2011, Mr. Mylod held several roles with us, including Vice Chair, Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning, and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining us, Mr. Mylod was a Principal at Stonington Partners, a private equity investment firm. Mr. Mylod currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Redfin and as a member of its audit committee. He serves as a member of Dropbox’s board of directors and as a member of its audit and compensation committees. He is Chairperson of the board of directors of Vroom, Inc. and serves as a member of Vroom’s audit and compensation committees. Between October 2015 and April 2017, Mr. Mylod served as a member of the board of directors of Autobytel, a company that facilitates the buying and selling of cars online. From 2001 until 2017, Mr. Mylod served as a member of the board of directors of EverBank, a U.S. savings bank providing online and mobile banking and financial services, and served on EverBank’s compensation committee and as the Chairman of the nominating and corporate governance committee from 2012 until 2017. Mr. Mylod served as a member of the board of directors of Novocure, a cancer treatment company, and on its audit committee, from 2012 to 2017, and on its nominating and corporate governance committee from 2015 to 2017. He also serves on the board of directors of several privately held companies. Mr. Mylod received an A.B. in English from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Timothy (Tim) M. Armstrong has served on our Board since January 2013 and is a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Armstrong is Founder and CEO of the dtx company, a direct to consumer enablement company he established in 2019. From 2009 to 2018, Mr. Armstrong served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL as well as the CEO of Oath (Verizon’s media brand portfolio, including Yahoo! and AOL) after Verizon’s acquisition of AOL in 2015. From 2000 to 2009, Mr. Armstrong served as President, Americas Operations and Senior Vice President of Google Inc. Before joining Google, Mr. Armstrong served as Vice President of Sales and Strategic Partnerships for Snowball.com and as Director of Integrated Sales and Marketing at Starwave’s and Disney’s ABC/ESPN Internet Ventures. Mr. Armstrong serves on the board of Wheels Up, an aviation company. Mr. Armstrong is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Greenwich Academy and also serves as a trustee of the USA Olympic and Para-Olympic Foundation.

Glenn D. Fogel

Chief Executive Officer and Director

Glenn Fogel has served as our Chief Executive Officer and President since January 2017 and the Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com since June 2019. Previously, he served as our Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning from November 2010 to December 2016 and as our Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, from March 2009 to December 2016. Mr. Fogel joined us in February 2000. Prior to that, he was a trader at a global asset management firm and prior to that was an investment banker specializing in the air transportation industry. Mr. Fogel is a member of the New York State Bar (retired).

Dr. Mirian M. Graddick-Weir, Ph.D, has served on our Board since June 2018, and is Chair of our Compensation Committee and a member of our Audit Committee. Dr. Graddick-Weir was the Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Merck & Co., Inc. from 2008 until November 2018, where she led human resources for one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world. Dr. Graddick-Weir served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources of Merck from September 2006 to January 2008. Prior to joining Merck, she served as Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Employee Communications of AT&T from 2004 to 2006 and served as its Executive Vice President of Human Resources from 1999 to 2004. Dr. Graddick-Weir was responsible for the design, planning and administration of all Human Resources functions, including compensation, benefits, recruiting and training, for AT&T’s 47,000 employees. She joined AT&T in 1981. She currently serves as Chair of Yum! Brands’ nominating and corporate governance committee and as a member of its management planning and development and executive/finance committees.

Wei Hopeman

Director

Wei Hopeman has served on our Board since June 2019 and is a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Ms. Hopeman is a Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in fintech companies around the world, which she co-founded in 2014. From 2010 to 2014, Ms. Hopeman served as Managing Director and Head of Asia for Citi Ventures. Prior to Citi Ventures, Ms. Hopeman spent time in various other banking and private equity roles, including as the Chief China Representative for Jefferies & Co. and as a technology banker at The Goldman Sachs Group.

Charles H. Noski

Lead Independent Director

Charles H. Noski has served on our Board since March 2015, as Lead Independent Director since June 2020, as a member of our Audit Committee since June 2020, as Chair of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee since June 2020 and previously served as Chair of our Audit Committee from June 2016 – June 2020. In 2012, Mr. Noski retired as a Vice Chairman of Bank of America Corporation, to which he was named after previously serving as that company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this, Mr. Noski served as Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Vice President and as a member of the board of directors of Northrop Grumman Corporation. Prior to Northrop Grumman, he was Vice Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Financial Officer of AT&T Corporation. Before that, Mr. Noski led Hughes Electronics Corporation in various senior executive roles, including as Vice Chairman and as President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Noski began his career at Deloitte & Touche LLP where he was named Partner. In 2019, Mr. Noski was elected to the board of directors of Wells Fargo & Company, and currently serves as Chairman of the Wells Fargo board, chairs its audit committee and is a member of its governance and nominating committee. In 2020, Mr. Noski was elected to the Hewlett Packard Enterprise board and is a member of its finance and investment committee. From 2003 to 2019, Mr. Noski served as a member of the board of directors of Microsoft Corporation and was the Chairman of Microsoft’s audit committee and a member of its governance and nominating committee. Mr. Noski was also Chairman of the board of trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation from 2016 to 2019 and a former member of the board of directors of the National Association of Corporate Directors. In addition, Mr. Noski served as a member of the board of directors of Avon Products, Inc. from 2012 to 2018.

Nicholas J. Read

Director

Nicholas J. Read has served on our Board since June 2018 and is a member of the Audit Committee. Mr. Read has served as Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Group Plc since October 2018 and as a member of its board of directors since 2014. Prior to becoming its Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Read served as Group Chief Financial Officer of Vodafone Group Plc April 2014 to July 2018. Since joining Vodafone in 2001, Mr. Read has held a variety of senior roles, including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Limited, the U.K. operating company. Prior to becoming Group Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Read served as Regional Chief Executive Officer for Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific for five years and was a board member of the Vodafone publicly-traded subsidiaries Vodacom, Safaricom and Vodafone Qatar and Vodafone’s joint ventures VHA in Australia and Indus Towers in India. Prior to joining Vodafone, he held senior global finance positions with United Business Media Plc and Federal Express Worldwide. Mr. Read is a Fellow Chartered Management Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant, with a BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance.

Thomas E. Rothman has served on our Board since January 2013, as a member of our Audit Committee until June 2020 and is a member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee since June 2020. Mr. Rothman has served as Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group since March 2015, where he oversees Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation, along with other entities. From September 2013 to February 2015, Mr. Rothman was Chairman of TriStar Productions. Previously, Mr. Rothman served as Chairman of Fox Entertainment Group Inc., a media company and subsidiary of News Corp. from 2000 to 2005 and as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2012. Mr. Rothman served as President of Twentieth Century Fox Film Group from January 2000 to August 2000, and served as President of Twentieth Century Fox Production from 1995 to 2000. In 1994, Mr. Rothman founded and served as President of Fox Searchlight Pictures. Prior to that, he served as President of Worldwide Production for the Samuel Goldwyn Company from 1989 to 1994. Mr. Rothman also served as an associate and then partner with Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz, a law firm, from 1982 to 1987. Mr. Rothman serves as a member of the board of directors of the Sundance Institute and the American Film Institute, both emeritus. He is also a member of the boards of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Brown University (emeritus), and was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a member of the National Council of the Arts, the governing body for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sumit Singh

Director

Sumit Singh has served on our Board since June 2022. Mr. Singh has held Chewy’s CEO position since March 2018, and also serves on the company’s Board of Directors. In 2019, he led the company through its initial public offering. Mr. Singh was subsequently named to the 2020 “Bloomberg 50,” Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual list of innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders who have changed the global business landscape over the past year, and to other notable lists such as NRF Foundation’s “The List of People Shaping Retail’s Future 2022.” Prior to joining Chewy, Mr. Singh held senior leadership positions at Amazon, and prior to Amazon, Mr. Singh served in senior management positions at Dell Technologies Inc. He has over 20 years global leadership experience that spans e-commerce, technology, retail, and logistics. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from Punjab Technical University and a Master’s in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Lynn M. Vojvodich has served on our Board since January 2016 and is a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Compensation Committee. Ms. Vojvodich is an advisor to start-up and growth-stage technology companies. She served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Salesforce from 2013 to February 2017. Before joining Salesforce, Ms. Vojvodich was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, where she helped companies build their go-to-market strategies. Previously, she was the Chief Marketing Officer at Terracotta Inc., a leader in in-memory and cloud-enabling technology. Ms. Vojvodich has also served in various roles at organizations including Bain & Company and Microsoft. Ms. Vojvodich has served as a member of the board of directors of Dell Technologies since April 2019, Ford Motor Company since April 2017 and Figma, a cloud-based design software company, since December 2019. Ms. Vojvodich began her career as a mechanical engineer in a hard hat working on the design and construction of Gulfstream jets and offshore oil structures.

Vanessa A. Wittman has served on our Board since June 2019 and is the Chair of our Audit Committee. Ms. Wittman has been the Chief Financial Officer of Glossier, an online beauty product company, since April 2019. She previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon, during 2018. Ms. Wittman served as Chief Financial Officer of Dropbox from 2015 to 2016 and as Chief Financial Officer of Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, from 2012 to 2014. From 2008 to 2012, Ms. Wittman served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies, a global professional services firm. Prior to Marsh & McLennan, Ms. Wittman held a number of other senior finance roles during her career. Ms. Wittman currently serves on the board of directors of Impossible Foods Inc., a sustainable foods company, and is the audit committee chair, as well as a member of the board of directors of Oscar Health. From 2014 to 2019, Ms. Wittman was a member of the board of directors of Ulta Beauty, a cosmetics and beauty supply retailer, and served on its audit committee. She also served as a member of the board of directors of Sirius XM Holdings from 2011 to 2018.

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