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Allegro, a leading online marketplace in Poland, today announces the appointment of Francois Nuyts as Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 August 2018. Przemyslaw Budkowski, the current CEO, will be stepping down to pursue other business interests. Mr. Nuyts joins from Amazon where he was most recently responsible for establishing Amazon in Southern Europe, as Vice President & Managing Director of Amazon Spain and Italy. Prior to this, he held various senior management roles within Amazon, including Country Manager, Spain; and Director, Media Categories, France, Italy and Spain. Previously, Mr. Nuyts worked at the consultancy firm Accenture. Mr. Nuyts will be relocating to Warsaw. Przemyslaw Budkowski has been CEO of Allegro for more than seven years. During this time, Allegro has continued to expand, becoming Poland’s leading eCommerce engine. Allegro offers more than 90 million products through a community of more than 100,000 Polish merchants who sell their products a...

When Sachin Dev Duggal was asked to pick some of his favourite things: Music Michael Jackson, salsa music and things with a beat that I can sing along to. I grew up with a love for dancing and anything that has a great beat is awesome. Gadget Bragi headphones as they are waterproof. Sachin Duggal swim with them on. He said when I did my triathlon, they were critical in keeping me focussed. Book Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson. He remains a mentor, a friend and this book was what really captivated me about him from the word go. Cuisine Lebanese and biryani. But, my mom’s is probably still the best. Movie 'Justice League' and 'Darkest Hour'. I feel they had a combination of being futuristic as well as delving into history. Read full story @ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/michael-jackson-and-darkest-hour-are-sachin-dev-duggals-favourite-things/articleshow/63497942.cms

Nivio Offers Windows + Office and Your Favorite Apps on Any Connected Device Sachin Dev Duggal is Nivio Co-Founder & Chief Wizard. Currently he is CEO of Engineer.ai Nivio, a global start-up with roots in India, today announced beta registration for a fully functional Windows desktop from the Cloud for users in the United States. This marks a significant milestone in the growth plans of the Gurgaon-based company as it expands globally. On nivio, users have access to an App-Store where they can rent applications, such as the complete Microsoft productivity suite, and take advantage of 10GB of upgradeable, free synchronized storage. nivio is accessible from any iOS, Android, Mac, Windows or Linux device, including iPads, Android tablets, PCs and laptops. Founded in 2004 by Sachin Dev Duggal and Saurabh Pradeep Dhoot, nivio is determined to transform the complex cloud computing technology of today into something that is relevant for everyday. Awarded the prestigiou...

Sachin Dev Duggal is the founder of SD Squared Labs, a boutique complete services software & application development company I know Sachin Dev Duggal who is current CEO & Founder of Engineer.ai as the guy who created Nivio, a company that actually let you get Windows apps on your freaking iPad, and it was all legal. It was this beautiful thing. People loved it. And Sachin Dev Duggal sold it. I thought we were going to do an interview about that and that’s what I’m all geared up for. Instead, that’s kind of going to be the backstory to what ends up being the actual interview, which is this new company that is actually bigger, more substantive and it’s called SD Squared. It’s got this crazy freaking business model that if I didn’t know somebody who worked there, I wouldn’t believe it actually existed. If anyone goes to SD Squared and has SD Squared build an app, it costs no more than $25,000 for an app on any single platform. If it’s more expensive, then they j...

Darren Huston , chief executive of Booking.com told an audience at ITB Berlin this week that marketing initiatives by hotels chains such as Marriott and Hilton are annoying. Marketing initiatives by hotels chains such as Marriott and Hilton which talk up the benefit of booking direct, have not escaped the notice of Darren Huston , chief executive of Booking.com. “It’s annoying,” he told an audience at ITB Berlin this week. Hilton’s “stop clicking around” TV ad was shown for reference. His response was hardly a surprise and presented in a tongue-in-cheek way (“I was at a chain hotel the other week and the wifi password was ‘book direct’, as if that would persuade me). But there was a steely resolve beneath the soundbite. “We see them as business partners, and we’ve brought them lots of business they wouldn’t have had.” Read full article @ https://www.chinatravelnews.com/article/99840

Ten years from now, travel won’t involve any paper, says Darren Huston , president and CEO of the Priceline Group and booking.com. “You’ll have no passport, no credit cards, no confirmation,” predicts the Amsterdam-based Canadian. “You’ll just have your phone in your pocket, and if you lose it, everything will be in the cloud.” Until someone invents teleportation, though, we’ll still have to fly – something Darren Huston doesn’t actually like to do. (He makes the most of his air time by sleeping and working.) But for now, it’s the only way he can access all the local experiences he craves. “I like bizarre flavours and tastes. I’ve eaten ants in Nairobi, frogs in Vietnam and lots of strange things in China – I really enjoy that about travel.” Black book: Europe Comfort food: “In Amsterdam, if I feel homesick, I go to Restaurant Red. They only serve three things: steak, Canadian lobster and wine.” Local fave: “Outside of Amsterdam is a little city called Delft, which...

Darren Huston was trying to watch a hockey game, half-listening to a headhunter talk about a company he had never heard of before. But as the headhunter went on, the then-45-year-old executive in charge of Microsoft’s global consumer and online businesses tuned out the arena noise and began listening to what he thought was an impossible story. “I said, ’There’s nothing that big in Europe on the Internet,‴⁣ he recalled, laughing. The 2011 call was from Booking.com, the Amsterdam-based unit of Priceline Group that dominates the European online travel market. By last year, Darren Huston became president and CEO of Priceline Group itself, which has come from dot-com laughingstock to the fifth most-valuable U.S. Internet company—if one still really considers it a U.S. company, because 90 percent of its profits come from overseas, most of them from Booking.com. Read full story @ https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/31/why-pricelines-booker-in-chief-is-spending-big.html