David Litman was born in New York in 1957. He lived in the UK from 1967-1975. He attended Sussex House School from 1968-1971 and City of London School from 1971-1975. He is a graduate of Cornell University (1979) and Cornell Law School (1982).[1]
In 1991 David Litman, along with Bob Diener, founded Hotel Reservations Network (HRN), which later became Hotels.com in 2001.[2] He was voted as the best performing lodging industry CEO of 2002.[3] Litman sold the company to IAC in 2003.[4]
In 2009 Litman and Bob Diener launched Getaroom.com, a hotel booking site.[5] Litman currently co-chairs the Texas Business for Clean Air with Garrett Boone, founder of Dallas-based the Container Store.[6]
References
edit- ^ Tkachuck, Cynthia (Summer–Fall 2006). "Profiles: David Litman '82" (PDF). Cornell Law Forum.
- ^ Schaal, Dennis (2016). "The Definitive oral history of online travel". Skift. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- ^ "Lodging Industry's Top Performing CEO of 2002". 2009-07-08.
- ^ "USA Interactive and Hotels.com Announce Merger Agreement | IAC". iac.com. Archived from the original on 2013-03-30.
- ^ Brock, Katherine Cromer (2009-07-08). "Founders of hotels.com start new venture". Dallas Business Journal.
- ^ Allen, Margaret (2007-03-02). "Green business group says its work not done". Dallas Business Journal.
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