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University. Mr. Mason brings to our Board the perspective and experience as one of our founders and as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Mason was elected to the
Board pursuant to voting rights granted to the former holders of our common stock and preferred stock under our voting agreement, which terminated as a result
of our initial public offering.
Jason E. Child
has served as our Chief Financial Officer since December 2010. From March 1999 through December 2010, Mr. Child held several
positions with Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), including Vice President of Finance, International from April 2007 to December 2010, Vice President of
Finance, Asia from July 2006 to July 2007, Director of Finance, Amazon Germany from April 2004 to July 2006, Director of Investor Relations from April 2003
to April 2004, Director of Finance, Worldwide Application Software from November 2001 to April 2003, Director of Finance, Marketing and Business
Development from November 2000 to November 2001 and Global Controller from October 1999 to November 2000. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Mr. Child
spent more than seven years as a C.P.A. and a consulting manager at Arthur Andersen. Mr. Child received his Bachelor of Arts from the Foster School of
Business at the University of Washington.
Joseph M. Del Preto II
has served as our Chief Accounting Officer since April 2011. From January 2011 to April 2011, Mr. Del Preto served as our
Global Controller. Prior to joining Groupon, Mr. Del Preto served as Controller and Vice President, Finance of Echo Global Logistics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECHO)
from April 2009 to December 2010. From January 2006 to March 2009, Mr. Del Preto served as Controller of InnerWorkings, Inc. (NASDAQ: INWK). Mr. Del
Preto began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Del Preto received his Bachelor of Science from Indiana University.
Jason D. Harinstein has served as our Senior Vice President-
Corporate Development since March 2011. From June 2005 to February 2011,
Mr. Harinstein served in several capacities at Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including most recently as Director of Corporate Development. From July 2003
to June 2005, Mr. Harinstein worked as an Equity Research Associate at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. where he covered Internet advertising, online search,
eCommerce and video game companies. Previously, Mr. Harinstein served as a strategy consultant at iXL, Inc. (now part of Razorfish) from June 1999 to June
2001, and at Andersen Consulting Strategic Services (now Accenture) from September 1997 to June 1999. Mr. Harinstein received his Bachelor of Arts in
Economics from Northwestern University and his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.
Jeffrey Holden has served as our Senior Vice President-Product Management since April 2011. In 2006, Mr. Holden co-
founded Pelago, Inc. and served
as its Chief Executive Officer until Groupon acquired Pelago in April 2011. Prior to co-
founding Pelago, Mr. Holden held several positions at Amazon.com, Inc.
(NASDAQ: AMZN), including Senior Vice President, Worldwide Discovery, from March 2005 to January 2006, Senior Vice President, Consumer Applications,
from April 2004 to March 2005, Vice President, Consumer Applications, from April 2002 to April 2004, and Director, Automated Merchandising and Discovery
from February 2000 to April 2002. Mr. Holden joined Amazon.com in May 1997 as Director, Supply Chain Optimization Systems. Mr. Holden received his
Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana1Champaign.
David R. Schellhase
has served as our General Counsel since June 2011. From March 2010 to May 2011, Mr. Schellhase served as Executive Vice
President, Legal of salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE: CRM). From December 2004 to March 2010, Mr. Schellhase served as the Senior Vice President and General
Counsel of salesforce.com, and he served as Vice President and General Counsel of salesforce.com from July 2002 to December 2004. From December 2000 to
June 2002, Mr. Schellhase was an independent legal consultant and authored a treatise entitled Corporate Law Department Handbook. Previously, he served as
General Counsel at Linuxcare, Inc., The Vantive Corporation and Premenos Technology Corp. Mr. Schellhase received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia
University and a Juris Doctor from Cornell University.
Brian J. Schipper has served as our Senior Vice President-
Human Resources since June 2011. From October 2006 to May 2011, Mr. Schipper served as
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO). From November 2003 to October 2006, Mr. Schipper
served as the Corporate Vice President, Human Resources of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT). From February 2002 to March 2003, Mr. Schipper was
Partner and Head of Human Resources and Administration for Andor Capital Management LLC. From March 2000 to February 2002, Mr. Schipper served as
Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration at DoubleClick, Inc. Prior to joining DoubleClick, Mr. Schipper served as Vice President, Human
Resources at PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) from May 1995 to March 2000. Prior to joining PepsiCo, Mr. Schipper worked at Compaq Computer Corporation,
where he was global head of compensation and benefits and head of Human Resources for North America. Mr. Schipper received his Bachelors Degree from
Hope College and his Masters in Business Administration from Michigan State University.
Brian K. Totty, Ph.D., has served as our Senior Vice President-
Engineering and Operations since November 2010. Dr. Totty was the Chief Executive
Officer of Ludic Labs, Inc., a startup venture developing a new class of software applications from January 2006 through November 2007. We acquired Ludic
Labs in November 2010. Dr. Totty also was a co-
founder and Senior Vice President of Research and Development of Inktomi Corporation from February 1996
to August 2002. Dr. Totty received his Ph.D.
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