Darren Huston

Darren Huston is a Canadian businessman and the president and chief executive officer (CEO). Currently Darren Huston is associated with BlackPines Capital Partners as CEO. BlackPines is an private investment firm which helps owners of private and public companies to optimize the value of their investments.

Career Experience:

In 1998, Darren Huston took the Senior Vice President position at the Seattle based company of Starbucks. He served in this post until 2003.

Huston served as the President and CEO of American giant Microsoft in Japan in 2005. By 2008, he began to run Microsoft’s Consumer and Online business as the company’s Corporate Vice President.

Darren Huston transitioned to Booking.com and became the CEO in 2011. After that, he joined the parent company known as Priceline in 2014. He has contributed much to the economy of the US with companies such as Priceline.

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My Daily Creed - Poem by Darren Huston

 My Daily Creed

Let me be a little kinder,

Let me be a little blinder

To the faults of those about me;

Let me praise a little more;

Let me be, when I am weary,

Just a little bit more cheery;

Let me serve a little better

Those that I am striving for.

Let me be a little braver

When temptation bids me waver;

Let me strive a little harder

To be all that I should be;

Let me be a little meeker

With the brother that is weaker;

Let me think more of my neighbor

And a little less of me. 

~ Darren Huston

Darren Huston News on Media in Canada

The online travel booking site started rolled out a number of spots, including three that are already in market in the United States, says Canadian-born expat Darren Huston, CEO, Booking.com. The creative is focused specifically on that feeling of euphoria when, after hectic travel, a hotel room meets all a traveller’s expectations, he says.

Bookingdotcom launched its first-ever traditional marketing push within the Canadian market with media by Wieden + Kennedy New York and creative from Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam.

Darren Huston said, “We tested it quite extensively with Canadians.”  “And they’re even more attracted to the humour [than Americans, where some of the commercials have been on air for about a year]. They also see themselves in the characters, and that’s very important too.”

The commercials target a wide-swath of the population, he says. Within the Canadian market, there’s an even gender split among Booking.com users and the site attracts everyone from the high-powered business executive to the thrifty college student.

To reach the wide-ranging audience, the site and the media buyer will test different types of creative across different media channels and will change up the media buy on a weekly basis based on which spots generate the most direct traffic to the website. For example, a business-oriented spot, might start on an after-work business affairs show, but based on site visits, might change to air during a sports broadcast, Darren Huston says.


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Engineer.ai, a no-code software development platform that lets people build software without ever needing to understand technology, today announced that it’s launching The Studio Store, a new range of pre-packaged apps – beginning with e-commerce and delivery – designed to bring businesses online faster and at a fraction of the cost of building from scratch. As COVID-19 heavily impacts small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), Engineer.ai will help all SMBs build their e-commerce or local delivery app with The Studio Store and provide the first three months of live service for free. This launch is part of Engineer.ai larger mission to make the process of building a digital future more accessible, cost effective and efficient.

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“Businesses need to adapt to survive. Customers now expect to communicate with businesses via digital channels – whether it’s through an app or a website. However, while businesses recognize this, a lack of skills, coding or technical knowledge has traditionally been a barrier,” said co-founder and CEO Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer.ai. “At Engineer.ai, we make it as easy and as affordable as possible for businesses to amplify their digital presence.”

The first apps will serve the specific needs of businesses across e-commerce and delivery – such as flower shops, grocery stores and clothiers – and can be delivered to a customer in less than eight weeks. The e-commerce app makes selling to an ever-mobile customer effortless, and retailers can showcase their goods with a scrollable carousel and offer a wide range of secure payment methods. The app includes features that will handle the soup to nuts of most e-commerce experiences, the aftercare to keep the app working and the cloud needed to run the app and scale the business. The delivery app makes online distribution smooth and simple with features including payment integration, in-app notifications and FedEx integration. The Studio Store can also serve as a stepping-stone as customers can add features from Builder Studio to make their app more customized over time.

Due to the impact of COVID-19, Engineer.ai will help SMBs with e-commerce or delivery needs build their Studio Store app and provide the first three months of live service for free. This offer will remain available for the next three months.

Sachin Dev Duggal Engineer AI continued, “We are seeing a disruption across all industries globally by COVID-19, and the way many of us interact with our customers overnight has stopped, changed or morphed. Among those most vulnerable are the smaller businesses without an online presence that depend on their customers to walk through their doors. Although there is a lot of uncertainty right now, SMBs are presented with an opportunity to rethink how they do business. Having a thoughtful digital presence for businesses will be critical, which is why we are offering this assistance to all SMBs so that they can use this time to leapfrog ahead.”

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Darren Huston - Workable

Darren Huston is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of BlackPines Global Advisors B.V. incorporated in May 2016 in The Hague. BlackPines’ mission is to help both owners and leaders of private companies optimize the value of their investments.

They target opportunities where they can take an active role in the business and co-operate with management to help develop strategies both domestically and abroad. Their approach to investing enables them to leverage their long term relationships with strategic partners and portfolio companies to source and manage deals.

Since July 2016, Mr. Darren Huston has been working as an Executive Advisor to Hill house Capital, Asia’s largest investment firm. In January 2017, his work with Hill house Capital became non-exclusive and he took on two leadership roles. The first as Chairman of Magento, the world’s largest eCommerce software platform, and the second as Executive Chairman for Allegro, Poland’s largest eCommerce site.

 

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I Deserve It - Poem by Darren Huston

 I DESERVE IT

 

Laugh at me i deserve it,
I don't have the choice.
Look at my face & listen to my voice.

Push me, I deserve it,
I'm going to the wrong way.
Someone needs to show me where I have to stay.

Hit me, I deserve it,
for I have done something wrong.
I must have lied and pretended I was strong.

Kill me, I deserve it,
I'm just not strong enough.
Someone hurry up!
THIS LIFE IS JUST TOO MUCH. 

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