Room 77 is differentiating from other travel sites by focusing exclusively on hotel search, says Kevin Fleiss, chief operating officer of Room 77.

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Back in the mid-'90s, before I became cofounder and chief executive officer of Room to Read, I led business development and operations for Unilever in Vietnam.

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Vonage also announced that company founder Jeffrey Citron will be stepping aside as chief executive officer to make room for Michael Snyder .

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The three then left the room, replaced by chief financial officer Patrick Pichette, senior vice president for product management Jonathan Rosenberg, and chief business officer Nikesh Arora.

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As chief financial officer and field marshal at hotelier Promus in the 1980s Ledsinger helped make sure every Hampton Inn room looked the same, every mattress felt the same and every bookkeeper counted expenses the same way.

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"It's a preconception with a modern house that everything in it has to be really small, " said Mr. Damaschke, 48-year-old chief creative officer at movie studio DreamWorks Animation, noting the 15-seat couch that anchors the living room.

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In a waiting room outside the office of Afghanistan's newly appointed chief justice, Abdul Salam Azimi, a security officer asks some judges from a remote province for identification.

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