Booking.com Names Matt Swann as Chief Technology Officer

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AMSTERDAM, November 2, 2018 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

    Former top tech exec from StubHub, Citibank and Amazon joins  leading

digital travel platform

    Today Booking.com, one of the world's largest travel e-commerce companies

and a digital technology leader, announced that Matt Swann has joined the

company's leadership team as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Matt will

lead Booking.com's full stack technology strategy to support the company's

continued growth as a global technology leader in travel and experiences,

working to create an even more seamless end-to-end technology experience for

travelers.

    Matt joins Booking.com from leading Silicon Valley-based event and

ticketing marketplace StubHub, where he also served as CTO, leading the

company's technology strategy to drive growth and innovation for the business.

    "I'm really thrilled to be embarking on this new adventure with

Booking.com," said Swann. "The brand's relentless focus on customer-centric

innovation, along with their continued applications of new technologies to

truly enhance the traveler experience presents an exciting opportunity to help

one of the world's largest global brands continue to push the boundaries of

technology innovation. I'm looking forward to diving in with the Booking.com

team to help further the brand's mission to help people experience the world."

    "We're very excited to be welcoming Matt to the Booking.com team," said

Gillian Tans, President and Chief Executive Officer at Booking.com. "His long

history leading high-performing tech organizations in the e-commerce space, as

well as his broad expertise in everything from AI to event ticketing to

international payments will help propel the next waves of innovation and growth

at Booking.com, empowering us to develop entirely new travel experiences for

our customers."

    Matt previously served as Chief Information Officer at Citibank, where he

set the technical vision and strategy for one of the world's largest and most

scalable financial platforms, as well as Vice President and Global Payments

Chief at Amazon, where he and his teams delivered a revolutionary mobile

commerce system that enabled hundreds of millions of customers to buy and sell

on the platform.

    Matt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University and

will be relocating from San Francisco to Amsterdam, where Booking.com's HQ and

primary technology center are located.

    About Booking.com:

    Established in 1996 in Amsterdam, Booking.com B.V. has grown from a small

Dutch start-up to one of the largest travel e-commerce companies in the world.

Part of Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), Booking.com now employs more than

17,000 employees in 198 offices in 70 countries worldwide.

    With a mission to empower people to experience the world, Booking.com

invests in digital technology that helps take the friction out of travel. At

Booking.com, we connect travelers with the world's largest selection of

incredible places to stay, including everything from apartments, vacation

homes, and family-run B&Bs to 5-star luxury resorts, tree houses and even

igloos. The Booking.com website and mobile apps are available in 43 languages,

offer 29 million total reported listings and cover more than 143,000

destinations in 230 countries and territories worldwide.

    Each day, more than 1.5 million room nights are reserved on our platform.

So whether traveling for business or leisure, customers can instantly book

their ideal place to stay quickly and easily with Booking.com, without booking

fees and backed up by our promise to price match. Via our customer experience

team, customers can reach Booking.com 24/7 for assistance and support in 43

languages, any time of the day or night.

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    CONTACT DETAILS

    For further information, please contact the Booking.com Press Office:

mediarelations@booking.com

SOURCE: Booking.com