Kayak Adds HomeAway Founder and CEO to Its Board

Kayak, the travel comparison site, has appointed HomeAway founder and CEO Brian Sharples to its board, according to a post on its blog. Kayak says Sharples’s experience of taking HomeAway’s vacation rentals business public last year will be invaluable as it continues to mull a public offering of its own. Before founding HomeAway, Sharples was CEO of IntelliQuest.


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