What Happened?
Norwalk, CT-based Kayak has announced the Resignation of Paul English as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
At Kayak, we help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As the worlds leading travel search engine, Kayak searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. And because our tech team is always on the lookout for ways to make travel planning and trip management even easier, we offer a variety of tools and features such as Kayak Trips, Explore and Price Forecast and are constantly evolving our app, Facebook Messenger and Slack bots, Alexa skill and related A.I. innovations. In addition to Kayak, we manage a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. Together, we help people experience the world by creating their favorite travel tools. Kayak is an independently managed subsidiary of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories.
About the Person
Paul is the Co-Founder and CTO of KAYAK. He writes mean code mostly in PowerPoint these days, although he still hacks his emacs lisp, and plays with perl/awk (yes, awk is still alive and well!) to help him analyze customer data. Paul's obsessed with customer feedback, and makes every KAYAK employee talk, chat, Twitter, or e-mail with customers every day. (He hates bad customer service so much that he launched the www.gethuman.com initiative to help consumers fight back against bad systems.) Before KAYAK, he co-founded a few companies you've never heard about. One of these (Boston Light Software — a small business e-commerce platform) was sold to Intuit, where Paul became VP technology and led efforts on product strategy and innovation process, and also led tech-recruiting efforts for the company. Paul is an advisor to FanSnap, Roost, LinkedIn, Partners-In-Health, and Village Health Works. Before KAYAK, Paul was briefly an EIR at Greylock, a Co-Founder and director of Intermute (an anti-spyware / anti-spam company where his brother Ed was CEO, and which was sold to Trend-Micro). The Founder of the World Xiangqi League (a Pan-Asian online game community), and the Co-Founder and chairman of Mancala, Inc (a "word-of-mouth" community that failed badly), Paul was also SVP Engineering and Product Management at Interleaf, and did contract programming for the U.S. Air Force, operations research programming for Data General, programming for a medical device company, and even some video game development. He’s an avid Red Sox fan (although a little disillusioned at how much money they are spending to buy their way to the top these days), an anti-TV activist, a fan of all things fast, and an avid reader. (Paul does not like pina coladas but is a fan of rain and midnight.) Paul is a graduate of UMass Boston, earning a B.A and M.S. in Computer Science.
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