The company Uber has chosen a new Executive Director
The company Uber has chosen a new Executive Director: the General Director of Expedia Dara Khosroshahi, according to two sources close to the company.
Discreet start-up rental was without a General Director, as the founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick resigned in June after an investigation of the culture of the company. Khosrowshahi was not among those who reportedly was in hiding. In short, the list included Jeff Immelt, former CEO of General Electric (GE), Meg Whitman, head of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
Whitman said in June that she will not go Uber. And Immelt came out of the race on Sunday due to issues with the Uber app, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Khosroshahi was led by Expedia (EXPE), in 2005 when he came out of the Travel unit IAC InterActiveCorp (IAC). Previously, he was CEO of IAC Travel, as well as chief financial officer of MAC. Uber has been without a chief financial officer 2015, chief financial officer of the company left the company in late may.
Khosroshahi - Iranian immigrant. He told Bloomberg BusinessWeek that his family fled Iran just before the Iranian revolution in 1978 when he was 9 years old.
As the new CEO of Uber, Khosroshahi will face challenges, including the repair of the internal culture of the company, navigation of legal battles and reduce its financial losses.
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