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employees in our Rest of World segment, consisting of 1,636 sales representatives and 2,590 corporate, operational and customer
service representatives. On January 2, 2014, we acquired Ticket Monster, with approximately 1,000 employees who will be included
within our Rest of World segment beginning in 2014.
Officers
The following table sets forth information about our executive officers as of December 31, 2013:
Name Age Position
Eric Lefkofsky............................................................................. 44 Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Jason Child.................................................................................. 45 Chief Financial Officer
Jeffrey Holden............................................................................. 45 Senior Vice President-Product Management
Kal Raman................................................................................... 45 Chief Operating Officer
David Schellhase......................................................................... 50 General Counsel
Brian Stevens .............................................................................. 39 Chief Accounting Officer
Eric Lefkofsky is a co-founder of the Company, has served as the Company's Executive Chairman since its inception until
August 5, 2013, and served in the Office of the Chief Executive from February 28, 2013 until his appointment to Chief Executive
Officer on August 5, 2013. Mr. Lefkofsky is a co-founder of Echo Global Logistics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECHO) and served on its
board of directors from February 2005 to December 2012. Mr. Lefkofsky is the co-founder of InnerWorkings, Inc. (NASDAQ:
INWK) and served on its board of directors from August 2008 to October 2012. In 2008, Mr. Lefkofsky co-founded Lightbank
LLC, a private investment firm specializing in information technology companies, and has served as a manager since that time.
In April 2006, Mr. Lefkofsky co-founded MediaBank, LLC (now Media Ocean), an electronic exchange and database that automates
the procurement and administration of advertising media, and has served as a director or manager since that time. Mr. Lefkofsky
also serves on the board of directors of Children's Memorial Hospital, the board of trustees of the Steppenwolf Theatre, the board
of trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago and the board of trustees of the Museum of Science and Industry. Mr. Lefkofsky also
serves on the board of directors of World Business Chicago. Mr. Lefkofsky is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicago
Booth School of Business. Mr. Lefkofsky holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor degree
from the University of Michigan Law School.
Jason 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.
Jeffrey Holden has served as our Senior Vice President-Product Management since April 2011 and has resigned from that
position effective March 18, 2014. 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
Kal Raman (also known as Kalyanaraman Srinivasan) joined the Company in May 2012 as its Senior Vice President,
Americas, in August 2012 was promoted to Senior Vice President, Global Operations, and then subsequently had his title changed
to Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Raman previously worked for eBay Inc., first as a consultant from December 2011 to March 2012
and then as Vice President, Global Fulfillment during April 2012. Prior to that, Mr. Raman was the Chief Executive Officer of
KUE Digital, a company that was wholly owned by Knowledge Universe Education LLC, from October 2006 to February 2007,
and then KUE Digital was subsequently renamed and incorporated as Global Scholar, an enterprise education software company,
in February 2007 and Mr. Raman served as the Chief Executive Officer of Global Scholar from its inception until September 2011.