Travelzoo (TZOO) Names Chris Loughlin to CEO, Effective July 2010
Travelzoo Inc. (NASDAQ: TZOO), a global Internet media company, today announced that Christopher "Chris" Loughlin, executive vice president, Europe, will become the company's chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2010, while CEO Holger Bartel will become chairman of the board of directors.
Chairman and Travelzoo founder Ralph Bartel, who has served as the chairman of the board of directors for more than eleven years, will continue to serve as one of the five members of Travelzoo's board of directors.
Loughlin, 36, joined Travelzoo in 2001 as vice president of business development based in the company's Silicon Valley office in Mountain View, California. In 2003, he moved to Chicago to expand Travelzoo's operations in North America. Loughlin moved to London in 2005 to take up the post of executive vice president, Europe, where he launched Travelzoo in the U.K. and subsequently in Germany, France and Spain. Loughlin holds a BSc(Hons) in Technology Management from Staffordshire University and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York City. In May 2009, Loughlin was named the "2009 Young Entrepreneur of the Year" by The British Travel & Hospitality Industry Hall of Fame.
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