Booking.com Names Matt Swann as Chief Technology Officer

Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) -

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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