Prior to co-founding TripAdvisor, he was president of CDS, Inc., an independent software vendor, and prior to that, was co-founder and VP of Engineering of CenterLine Software. He’s also won a number of awards for entrepreneurship and leadership in the travel industry including being inducted into the 2015 British Travel & Hospitality Hall of Fame and the the 2015 Pioneer Award by the International Society of Hospitality Consultants.