PRICELINE.COM NAMES DANIEL H. SCHULMAN,
FORMER PRESIDENT OF AT&T'S CONSUMER MARKETS DIVISION,
AS ITS NEW PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
STAMFORD, Conn., June 17, 1999 . . . Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), the
patented Internet pricing system, today named Daniel H. Schulman as its new
President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Schulman, 41, was most recently
the President of AT&T's $22 billion Consumer Markets Division. He will
report to priceline.com's Chairman and CEO Richard S. Braddock, a former
President of Citibank. Mr. Schulman will have broad responsibility for all
of priceline.com's operations, technology, marketing and product
development.
Mr. Schulman joins priceline.com after a highly successful 18-year career
with AT&T where he was the youngest member of the company's most senior
executive body, the AT&T Operations Group. As President of its Consumer
Markets Division he led AT&T's core consumer long-distance business and
reshaped the business unit to deliver customized communications services to
distinct customer segments. Mr. Schulman came to Consumer Markets after
building AT&T WorldNet service into the largest and fastest-growing
Internet service provider in the country. Mr. Schulman also served as
chief of marketing for AT&T's $24 billion Business Markets Group where he
led the integration of wireless, e-commerce and local services into
innovative bundles.
At priceline.com, Mr. Schulman succeeds Jesse M. Fink, who returns to
Walker Digital, the intellectual property laboratory that invented
priceline.com's patented pricing system.
"Priceline.com has successfully made the transition from an entrepreneurial
start-up to a substantial high-growth company serving millions of customers
annually," said Mr. Braddock. "Our goal is to become one of America's
blue-chip e-commerce companies. Dan will be a key member of the management
team that will continue to aggressively expand our current product and
service lines and move us forcefully and effectively to exploit the
business opportunities in front of us."
"Now that we have built the foundation of a revolutionary business, Dan
will leverage his experience building high-growth businesses to expand our
product line horizontally and vertically," Mr. Braddock continued. "In
just the last quarter, our customer base grew by more than 500,000, and we
are looking to Dan to continue our growth and enhance our customer support.
With his level of accomplishment and experience, he brings the kind of
managerial depth that will be a key success factor for Net-based businesses
which want to reach the mass-market level in scope, quality and customer
service."
"Joining an established e-commerce leader at this early stage is a once-in-
a-lifetime opportunity," said Mr. Schulman. "I'm looking forward to
working with this first-class group of executives and employees and
building on the enormous successes they have achieved thus far."
"Dan's joining the priceline.com management team highlights our commitment
to merging the ingenuity of an Internet start-up with the management depth
of a Fortune 500 company," said Jay S. Walker, priceline.com's founder and
Vice Chairman. "Together, Dan and Rick bring the right mix to
priceline.com."
ABOUT PRICELINE.COM
Priceline.com is an Internet pricing system that enables consumers to name
their own price for a variety of goods and services. Consumers can make as
many price requests as they wish through the system at no charge.
Priceline.com takes those price requests and shares them with multiple
brand-name sellers, who can fill as many of those requests as they want at
price points determined by the buyers.
Priceline.com is one of the Internet's truly "virtual" businesses. The
company takes all of its price requests directly to sellers for
fulfillment, which means priceline.com doesn't hold or handle any
inventory, and thus has no need for brick-and-mortar warehouses or large
order-fulfillment staffs.
Currently, priceline.com is organized along three business lines: travel
services which offers leisure airline tickets and hotel rooms, financial
services which offers home mortgages, refinancing and home equity loans and
automotive services which offers new cars on a test basis in the New York
area.
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For press information, contact:
Brian Ek at priceline.com 203-705-3026 (brian.ek@priceline.com)
Michael Darcy at priceline.com 203-705-3331 (mike.darcy@priceline.com)
Jennifer Carr at Connors Communications 212-807-7500 (jcarr@priceline.com)
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