David Litman

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David Litman was an American-French [1] , 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). [2]

In 1991 David Litman, along with Bob Diener, founded Hotel Reservations Network (HRN), which later became Hotels.com in 2001. [3] He was voted as the best performing lodging industry CEO of 2002. [4] Litman sold the company to IAC in 2003. [5]

In 2009 Litman and Bob Diener launched Getaroom.com, a hotel booking site. [6] Litman currently co-chairs the Texas Business for Clean Air with Garrett Boone, founder of Dallas-based the Container Store. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Brock, Katherine Cromer (2009-07-08). "Founders of hotels.com start new venture". Dallas Business Journal.
  2. ↑ Tkachuck, Cynthia (Summer–Fall 2006). "Profiles: David Litman '82" (PDF). Cornell Law Forum.
  3. ↑ Schaal, Dennis (2016). "The Definitive oral history of online travel". Skift . Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  4. ↑ "Lodging Industry's Top Performing CEO of 2002". 2009-07-08.
  5. ↑ "USA Interactive and Hotels.com Announce Merger Agreement | IAC". iac.com. Archived from the original on 2013-03-30.
  6. ↑ Brock, Katherine Cromer (2009-07-08). "Founders of hotels.com start new venture". Dallas Business Journal.
  7. ↑ Allen, Margaret (2007-03-02). "Green business group says its work not done". Dallas Business Journal.


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