David Litman was born in New York in 1957. He lived in the UK from 1967-1975. He attended

Sussex House School Sussex House School (commonly known as Sussex House), is a boys’ preparatory school located in Chelsea, London. Founded in 1952, the school occupies a house designed by Norman Shaw at 68 Cadogan Square, and since 1994 has operated as an indep ...

from 1968-1971 and

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from 1971-1975. He is a graduate of

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

(1979) and Cornell Law School (1982). In 1991 David Litman, along with Bob Diener, founded Hotel Reservations Network (HRN), which later became

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in 2001. He was voted as the best performing lodging industry CEO of 2002. Litman sold the company to IAC in 2003. In 2009 Litman and Bob Diener launched Getaroom.com, a hotel booking site. Litman currently co-chairs the ''Texas Business for Clean Air'' with Garrett Boone, founder of Dallas-based the Container Store.

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