TillmanCarlson Recruits Christopher Hjelm As Chief Technology Officer For Orbitz
Oak Brook, IL (July 14, 2003) - TillmanCarlson recruits Christopher Hjelm as Chief Technology Officer for Orbitz.
Hjelm succeeds Orbitz' first employee and chief architect, Alex Zoghlin. He joins Orbitz from eBay where he was Senior Vice President of Technology and played a key role in helping the company achieve record levels of site quality and reliability during a period of accelerating global business growth and new product introductions. Hjelm's earlier experience includes a fourteen year tenure with Federal Express where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, and executive positions at Excite@Home and Zoho Corp.
Hjelm holds holds a Bachelor's degree from Colorado State University and an honorary Ph.D. in Computer Science from Colorado Technical University.
About Orbitz
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Orbitz is a leading online travel company offering consumers the widest selection of low airfares, as well as deals on lodging, car rentals, cruises and vacation packages. Orbitz makes finding low fares and great deals easier through a state-of the-art flight search engine that scans more than 455 airlines and the Orbitz Matrix Display that provides an unbiased and comprehensive listing of airfares and other rates. Orbitz also offers the largest collection of discounted web-only airfares and low-priced hotel web rates. For further information on Orbitz, visit www.orbitz.com.
About TillmanCarlson (Formerly Blackbird Partners)
Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, TillmanCarlson is a senior level executive search firm specializing in the recruitment of CEOs, CFOs and CIOs for a broad range of companies from venture-backed start-ups to large, global corporations.
