Priceline Promotes Longtimer to CEO of North America; CEO Spot Vacant

Christopher Soder, 50, priceline.com’s President of North American Travel, was promoted to CEO of priceline.com North America. Prior to joining Priceline in 2000, Soder was the Western Region Vice President for AT&T.

General Manager Placements

Computer Services announced that R. Stanley Eckenberg was named President and COO of CSI. Mr. Eckenberg joined CSI in 1992 as Director of Special Projects. Before joining CSI, he was Senior Account Executive for Xerox Corporation and also served as Branch Manager for Unisys Corporation.

GSI Commerce announced the appointment of John Healy as CEO of MBS Insight. Healy began his career in consumer packaged goods at Pepsi and then expanded his focus to marketing services when he joined ADVO, the nation's largest direct mail organization. He also held senior leadership positions with well established marketing services companies, including R.L. Polk, Equifax, DoubleClick and PRIMIS Marketing Group.

InfoSpace announced that it has appointed Steve Hooper to the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Hooper is a founding partner of Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in communications, internet, software, and technology services. Prior to founding Ignition, Mr. Hooper was the Chairman and CEO at Nextlink Communications (now XO Communications). Prior to this, he served as the Co-CEO at Teledesic.

Pitney Bowes announced the appointment of Chuck Cordray to the new position of president of the Volly secure digital delivery service. Cordray joins Pitney Bowes from Hearst Corporation, where he served as SVP and GM of Hearst Magazines Digital Media. Cordray previously held executive leadership roles for several large consumer brands, including TV Guide Publishing Group, Primedia, and Meredith Corporation.

Dell announced that Judy Lewent has decided not to seek re-election to its board of directors when her current term ends in July in order to devote more time to other business responsibilities. Ms. Lewent, the former EVP and CFO of Merck, was chair of the finance committee and also served on the audit committee of the Dell Board. She has been a member of the board since May 2001. Ms. Lewent recently joined the board of Glaxo Smith Kline. In addition, she is a director of Motorola Solutions and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Apple announced that Bertrand Serlet, Apple's SVP of Mac Software Engineering, will be leaving the company. Serlet joined Apple in 1997. Before joining Apple, Serlet spent four years at Xerox PARC, then joined NeXT in 1989. Craig Federighi, Apple's VP of Mac Software Engineering, will assume Serlet's responsibilities and report to Steve Jobs. Federighi worked at NeXT, followed by Apple, and then spent a decade at Ariba where he held several roles including VP of Internet Services and CTO. He returned to Apple in 2009 to lead Mac OS X engineering.

Tom Hogan, 50, decided to leave HP. He served as EVP of Sales and Marketing for HP’s Enterprise Business group, with global responsibility for the sales and marketing of all products and solutions for the $57-billion-a-year business. Prior to this, Hogan turned around HP’s software business. Hogan also served as the CEO of Software maker, Vignette and was an executive at SAP. Jan Zadak, Managing Director for HP Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will assume Hogan’s role.

CA Technologies announced that Rohit Kapoor, 46, CEO of ExlService Holdings Inc. has been elected to its Board of Directors. The Board expects to name Kapoor to the Board's Audit Committee. Kapoor's appointment brings the Board membership to 10, nine of whom are independent. In 2008, Kapoor was named president and CEO of ExlService Holdings, Inc., a provider of outsourcing and transformation services, and has served as a director since 2002. Kapoor previously served as ExlService Holdings' COO and CFO. He co-founded ExlService.com, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ExlService Holdings, in April 1999.

Board Placements

Compuware announced that Frederick Henderson, Chairman of Suncoke Energy and SVP of Sunoco has joined its Board of Directors. Prior to this role, he was President and CEO of General Motors. Mr. Henderson held a number of other senior management positions during his two-and-a-half decades at GM, including Vice Chairman and CFO, Chairman of GM Europe, President of GM Asia Pacific and President of GM Latin America, Africa and Middle East. Before attending graduate school, he was a certified public accountant for PriceWaterhouse in Detroit.

Autodesk announced that Lorrie Norrington has been appointed to Autodesk's board of directors. She served as an executive at eBay five years and most recently held the role of president of eBay Marketplace, where she led all eBay businesses globally. Prior to joining eBay, Norrington served as president and CEO of Shopping.com and as executive vice president in the office of the CEO of Intuit Inc.

AOL Announced five industry heads for CPG/Health, Travel, Entertainment, Automotive, and Finance. They all come from relevant publishing backgrounds such as Heartst, Yahoo, TV Guide, Amex Publishing, Travel+Leisure Golf, Bloomberg BusinessWeek.