SANTA CLARA, Calif. | SideStep, Inc. (www.sidestep.com), the Internet's leading travel search company, today announced that Owen Van Natta, chief operating officer of Facebook, has been elected to serve on SideStep, Inc.’s board of directors.
“SideStep is excited to welcome Owen Van Natta to the company’s board of directors,” said Rob Solomon, president and CEO, SideStep, Inc. “Owen is one of the Internet’s most dynamic executives, and the unprecedented growth he helped drive at both Amazon and Facebook is testament to his knowledge, versatility and leadership.”
As chief operating officer at Facebook, Van Natta is responsible for the business, operational and financial strategy for Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Owen was vice president of worldwide business and corporate development at Amazon.com, where he drove strategic initiatives that resulted in additional revenue streams and business opportunities for the company. Most recently, Owen was vice president and a member of the founding team at A9.com, where he was responsible not only for the workings of the Internet site itself but Amazon.com product search and sponsored link advertising.
Van Natta earned a bachelor's degree in English and American Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
About SideStep, Inc. | SideStep, the Internet's leading travel search company, delivers the most comprehensive selection of travel choices at the best prices to more than five million consumers each month. SideStep has been named one of TIME Magazine's "50 Coolest Web Sites," a PC World “World Class Site” and one of its “Best Products of 2006,” and declared "Best of the Web" by both Forbes and BusinessWeek Online. The company has direct relationships with the largest travel suppliers in the industry and works with a variety of leading world-class brands, providing relevant results from more than 600 airlines, 150,000 hotels and 30,000 car rental sites worldwide. The Company also operates TravelPost.com (www.travelpost.com), the Web's largest independently owned hotel review community. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SideStep is privately held and has raised more than $17 million in funding from Trident Capital and individual investors. For more information, visit
www.sidestep.com.
