Richard N. Barton Joins Liberty Interactive’s Board of Directors
December 12 2016 - 7:45PM
Business Wire
Liberty Interactive Corporation (Nasdaq: QVCA, QVCB, LVNTA,
LVNTB) announced today that Richard N. Barton was elected to the
Liberty Interactive board of directors. Mr. Barton is co-founder
and Executive Chairman of the board of Zillow Group, a real estate
marketplace, and co-founder and Non-Executive Chairman of the
boards of Glassdoor.com, a salary and reviews website for
companies, and Trover, a mobile discovery network. Following Mr.
Barton’s appointment, Liberty Interactive has a total of eleven
directors.
“Rich is a visionary entrepreneur and tech leader with
unparalleled depth of experience,” said Greg Maffei, President and
CEO of Liberty Interactive. “We are thrilled to welcome him to the
board and look forward to his future contributions to Liberty.”
“I have always admired Liberty Interactive and its leadership
team and I’m honored to be joining their board,” said Mr. Barton.
“I have tremendous respect for John, Greg and the other board
members, and I look forward to working with them.”
Prior to co-founding Zillow, Mr. Barton founded Expedia in 1994
as a group within Microsoft, which Microsoft later spun out in
1999. He served as Expedia’s President, Chief Executive Officer and
as a member of its board of directors from 1999 to 2003. Mr. Barton
is a Venture Partner at Benchmark Capital and is also on the boards
of Netflix and several other privately held companies. Mr. Barton
holds a bachelor's in general engineering: industrial economics
from Stanford University and is an inaugural member of the
Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (“PAGE”),
appointed by President Obama in 2014.
About Liberty Interactive
Corporation
Liberty Interactive Corporation operates and owns interests in a
broad range of digital commerce businesses. Those businesses are
currently attributed to two tracking stock groups: the QVC Group
and the Liberty Ventures Group. The businesses and assets
attributed to the QVC Group (Nasdaq: QVCA, QVCB) consist of Liberty
Interactive Corporation's subsidiaries, QVC, Inc. and zulily, llc,
and its interest in HSN, Inc., and the businesses and assets
attributed to the Liberty Ventures Group (Nasdaq: LVNTA, LVNTB)
consist of all of Liberty Interactive Corporation's businesses and
assets other than those attributed to the QVC Group, including its
interests in Liberty Broadband Corporation and FTD, Liberty
Interactive Corporation’s subsidiary Evite, and minority interests
in Interval Leisure Group, Lending Tree and Charter
Communications.
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