Darren Huston born and grew up in Canada, where he spoke English at home. He learned French and Italian when he was a teenager, and after college he worked in the Canadian government, where his boss was from Quebec and would only talk to him in French.
When Darren Huston was working for McKinsey in Seattle, he saw Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz giving a speech. Huston found him and his company very compelling. At the time, a lot of McKinsey people were leaving to join dot-coms; He joined a coffee company instead. People thought Darren was crazy.
Darren Huston:As you know we had a great second quarter a 34% bookings growth 31% net income growth and we think our forecast for the third quarters prudent reflects the fact the euro is down a little bit against the dollar.We're also making investments though in offline marketing in our open table acquisition and a number of other things but we're feeling really good actually about the health of the busines.CNBC:We have two big deals to talk about let's talk about the most recent why are you investing half a billion dollars in the Chinese online player Ctrip to buy that that 10 percent stake what does that do for your business.Darren Huston:Well Simon you know it travels inherently business where you go from somewhere to somewhere and being a global business obviously is very important to a travel business like the Priceline group and china is the next big market for travel by 2020.Watch Full Video @
Darren Huston became the president and CEO of Microsoft Japan in July 2005, moving to Japan with his wife Clarissa (who graduated from Trent in 1990) and their children Erinne (six) and Owen (three).Before joining Microsoft, Darren Huston was a senior vice president at Starbucks Coffee Company where, among other things, he led the rollout of the Starbucks Card and Wi-Fi to Starbucks stores around the world.
A graduate of the United World College in Trieste, Italy, he earned his Honours B.Sc.
Honours in economics at Trent, his Masters in economics at UBC, and an MBA from Harvard University.Visit: https://www.slideshare.net/DataEntryIndia1/darren-huston-on-trent-magazine
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