ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(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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