Sojern Appoints Paul Huie as General Counsel and SVP, Corporate Development

The newly created role reinforces Sojern's vision for global market expansion

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Sep 05, 2017, 12:00 ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Sojern, travel's direct demand engine powering real-time advertising for thousands of brands worldwide, today announced the appointment of Paul Huie as General Counsel and SVP, Corporate Development. Based in San Francisco, Huie will oversee legal, data privacy, and M&A initiatives to accelerate Sojern's global market expansion.

Prior to joining Sojern, Huie was the founding General Counsel at Criteo and, most recently, led corporate development activities for the $3.5 billion technology company. Before that, Huie was VP and Associate General Counsel at Yahoo!, where he led the legal team supporting Yahoo!'s global mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic investment efforts. During his 16 year-tenure at both companies, Paul has overseen more than 50 strategic transactions totaling $7 billion in value.

"Paul's appointment affirms our growth strategy of launching new products and new markets. The goal is to leverage his industry knowledge and hands on experience to accelerate growth both organically and via M&A. He will be looking closely at technologies and teams with unique offerings that could accelerate our business both domestically and abroad," said Mark Rabe, CEO of Sojern.

"Sojern has done an amazing job becoming a vital marketing and distribution partner to more than 4,000 customers globally. Having worked most recently at two leading global digital media firms, I see a big opportunity for Sojern to achieve its expansion goals given its unique position in travel," said Paul Huie, General Counsel and SVP Corporate Development of Sojern.

About Sojern
Sojern is travel's direct demand engine, delivering $10B in direct bookings for thousands of brands — from global enterprises to boutique operators — across industries including hotel, airline, cruise, transportation, tourism, and more. Specializing in traveler path-to-purchase data for over a decade, Sojern activates multi-channel branding and performance solutions by combining billions of search and booking intent signals with proprietary data science methods to analyze the world's travelers in real-time. Recognized on the Top Company Cultures list by Entrepreneur Magazine, Sojern is headquartered in San Francisco, with teams based in Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Mexico City, New York, Omaha, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney. For more information, visit www.sojern.com.