Rob Ransom is Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Booking Holdings, the world's leading online travel company. At Booking Holdings, Rob is responsible for overall company strategy, corporate business development, and the company's global sustainability strategy and programs. Rob has been instrumental in defining the company¡¯s global strategy, accelerating into new verticals and supporting continued company growth through identifying new market opportunities, strategic partnerships and investment opportunities across the travel technology ecosystem. He has also been a member of the Booking.com Leadership Team since 2014, and for four years oversaw the company¡¯s division dedicated to developing cloud-based software solutions to drive B2B growth across the business.
Prior to joining Booking.com in 2014, Rob served as CEO and President of Bongarde Media, an integrated digital media and software business, and Vice President of Marketing and Product at HouseValues Inc., (now part of Zillow, Inc.), a provider of online lead generation and B2B software in the online real estate sector. Rob also spent more than 6 years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Rob holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in International Relations from Princeton University. He speaks English and French, and originally hails from Seattle, Washington, USA.
