David Soskin biography

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David Soskin
Non-Executive Director

David Soskin joined the Company as Chief Executive Officer upon the management buy-in with Hugo Burge in March 2000. He was previously at ABN AMRO Corporate Finance, where he was Head of Global Media. He served as Cheapflights’ CEO until 2008 when he became a Non-Executive Director. Under his leadership, Cheapflights grew from an attic-based operation into an award-winning international leader in online travel search; achieved 8.4 million users in January 2008; and was included in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track of the UK's 100 fastest-growing privately owned technology companies for five years in a row.

David graduated from the University of Oxford (First Class Honours in Modern History), where he was President of the Oxford Union, and from the Harvard Business School (MBA) where he was a Harkness Fellow. In 1995, David's entrepreneurial achievements were honoured by the European Foundation for Entrepreneurial Research when he was named as one of Europe's 500 most dynamic entrepreneurs. In 2007, David together with Hugo Burge launched HOWZAT Media, an internet investment fund. David is currently Executive Chairman of Swapitshop.com and Vice Chairman of mySupermarket.co.uk.