Darren Huston,
the family farmhand turned CEO of $60-billion Priceline Group Inc., is
arguably one of the most successful C-suite exports to come out of this
province that you’ve never heard of.
Born
in Hope, B.C., and equipped with a Master of Economics from UBC and an
MBA from Harvard, Huston quickly climbed the corporate ladder at
Starbucks and Microsoft as a senior VP, including a three-year run as
president and CEO of Microsoft Japan.
In
2011, he landed at Amsterdam-based travel website Booking.com as CEO;
in less than three years’ time, he tripled the size of that operation,
and in January of this year Huston was named CEO of the parent company,
Priceline.
In addition to Booking.com and its eponymous website,
Priceline’s other online properties include Kayak, Rentalcars, Agoda and
Villas.
This
June, Priceline expanded into a new digital realm, purchasing
table-booking app OpenTable, the preeminent restaurant reservation site,
for $2.6 billion.
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