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Directors and Executive Officers
Set forth below is certain background information, as of April 24, 2015, regarding the members of our Board of Directors, each
of whom is also a nominee, as well as TripAdvisor’s executive officers. There are no family relationships among directors or
executive officers of TripAdvisor. In addition to the information presented below regarding each nominee’s specific experience,
qualifications, attributes and skills that led the Board of Directors to the conclusion that he or she should be renominated as a director,
each nominee has demonstrated business acumen and an ability to exercise sound judgment, as well as a commitment to TripAdvisor
and our Board of Directors as demonstrated by the nominee’s past service. All of our nominees also have extensive management
experience in complex organizations. The Board of Directors considered the NASDAQ requirement that TripAdvisor’s Audit
Committee be composed of at least three independent directors, as well as specific NASDAQ and U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”) requirements regarding financial literacy and expertise.
Name Age Position
Gregory B. Maffei .................................. 54 Chairman
Stephen Kaufer ....................................... 52 Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
Julie M.B. Bradley ................................. 46 Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer,
Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer
Seth J. Kalvert ........................................ 45 Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Dermot M. Halpin .................................. 44 President, Vacation Rentals
Barrie Seidenberg ................................... 50 Chief Executive Officer, Attractions
Jonathan F. Miller .................................. 58 Director
Dipchand (Deep) Nishar......................... 46 Director
Jeremy Philips ........................................ 42 Director
Spencer M. Rascoff ................................ 39 Director
Christopher W. Shean ............................ 49 Director
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy ....................... 45 Director
Robert S. Wiesenthal .............................. 48 Director
Gregory B. Maffei has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of TripAdvisor since February 2013. Mr. Maffei has served
as a director as well as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Media Corporation (“LMC”) (including its predecessor)
since May 2007, LTRIP since July 2013 and Liberty Broadband Corporation (“LBC”) since June 2014. He has served as President
and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty since February 2006 and as a director since November 2005. . He also served as CEO-Elect
of Liberty from November 2005 through February 2006. Prior to joining Liberty in 2005, Mr. Maffei served as President and Chief
Financial Officer of Oracle Corporation, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of 360networks Corporation and Chief
Financial Officer of Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Maffei also currently serves as a director of the following companies: Starz, Sirius
XM Holdings Inc., Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., Charter Communications, Inc. and Zillow Group, Inc. Mr. Maffei holds an
M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and an A.B. from Dartmouth College.
Board Membership Qualifications: Mr. Maffei brings to our Board significant financial and operational experience based on
his senior policy-making positions at Liberty, LMC, LBC, LTRIP, Oracle, 360networks and Microsoft and his other public
company board experience. He provides our board with an executive and leadership perspective on the operation and
management of large public companies and risk management principles.
Stephen Kaufer co-founded TripAdvisor in February 2000 and has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of
TripAdvisor since that date. Mr. Kaufer has been a director of TripAdvisor since the completion of the spin-off from Expedia (the
“Spin-Off”) in 2011. Prior to co-founding TripAdvisor, Mr. Kaufer served as President of CDS, Inc., an independent software vendor
specializing in programming and testing tools, and co-founded CenterLine Software and served as its Vice President of Engineering.
Mr. Kaufer serves on the boards of several privately-held companies, including CarGurus, LLC, LiveData, Inc., and GlassDoor, Inc.,
as well as the charity Caring for Carcinoid Foundation. Mr. Kaufer holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Harvard University.
Board Membership Qualifications: As co-founder of TripAdvisor and through his service as its Chief Executive Officer,
Mr. Kaufer has extensive knowledge of TripAdvisor’s business and operations, and significant experience in the online
advertising sector of the global travel industry. Mr. Kaufer also possesses strategic and governance skills gained through his
executive and director roles with several privately-held companies.
Jonathan F. Miller has been a director of TripAdvisor since the completion of the Spin-Off in 2011. He previously served as
Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation’s digital media group and News Corporation’s Chief Digital Officer from April
2009 until October 2012. Mr. Miller was a founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group (“Velocity”), an investment firm focusing
on digital media and the consumer Internet, from its inception in February 2007 until April 2009. Prior to founding Velocity,