Hari Senior Vice President at Expedia Group (EXPE) leads the lodging marketplace, Expedia largest Account Management business and revenue producer, exceeding $7B in 2022 (75%). He manages the largest team of 1,800 sales and account managers over 135 locations worldwide while overseeing the entire lodging and vacation rentals portfolio comprising of 800K+ hotels and over 2M+ vacation rental properties globally. In this role, he works with Expedia’s global supply partners to make them successful on the Expedia Group platform and stay ahead of digital innovation.
Hari joined Expedia Group in 2002. In his twenty-year tenure with the company, he has built a unique B2B, B2C and media advertising knowledge that can benefit all supply partners as they charter the complexities of the travel ecosystem. Previous to this role, Hari was the Global SVP Expedia Group Media Solutions, the digital advertising arm of Expedia Group where he oversaw all facets of the business including product development and execution, engineering, operations, marketing, media sales and business development for destination marketing organizations. During his tenure, Media Solutions became the fastest growing business at Expedia. Prior to this experience, he focused on two B2C brands as Vice President and General Manager of Orbitz.com and CheapTickets.com, subsidiaries of Expedia Group. He was responsible for overseeing retail operations and profitability of the business, brand strategy, marketing efficiency and customer lifecycle management.
Prior to joining Expedia, Hari worked in corporate training and food and beverage operations at Oberoi Hotels, a leading luxury hotel chain that owns and manages thirty hotels and five luxury cruisers across six countries under the ‘Oberoi’ & ‘Trident’ brands.
Hari holds a master’s degree in Hotel Management from Cornell University. In his spare time, he is an avid runner, enjoys cooking Indian food, not shy of displaying his Bollywood dancing skills and a regular visitor to India, his beloved native country.
