PriceGrabber President Resigns

November 19, 2010

Just got confirmation that PriceGrabber’s president resigned last week.

PriceGrabber says “Laura Conrad, president of PriceGrabber, has announced her retirement from PriceGrabber. She will remain President of PriceGrabber through at least the end of the year, leading the company through the critical holiday shopping period ensuring merchants, affiliates and consumers a seamless transition in leadership. PriceGrabber remains dedicated to its merchants and affiliates, as well as providing a comprehensive shopping solution to its users.”

Laura came to PriceGrabber in July of 2009 after being COO and CFO of Experian Interactive, which runs FreeCreditReport.com, LowerMyBills, ClassesUSA and PriceGrabber.com. Laura took over the leadership role from Ron Lapierre, who ran business development for PriceGrabber before taking over for CEO and Co-Founder Kamran Pourzanjani.

No word yet from PriceGrabber who will run the company or if there are any other management changes.

As a side note, if you haven’t been following Kamran since he left PriceGrabber, he now runs Bestcovery, and he recently acquired ELC Technologies, the maker of RightScale (which SingleFeed loves), among other apps.


Changing of the Shopping Engine Guard – Purnendu Ojha Retires from NexTag

March 25, 2010

You could say it’s the end of an era. The old guard has left the building.

Dan Ciporin left Shopping.com a long time ago. And since then, Josh Silverman and Lorrie Norrington also moved on.
Kamran Pourzanjani left PriceGrabber a long time ago. And since then, Ron LaPierre also moved on.
Farhad Mohit, Chuck Davis, and John Phelps, have all left Shopzilla.
Rob Solomon left Yahoo! Shopping. And now that PriceGrabber has taken over control of Yahoo! Shopping, Greg Hintz is now heading up Listings at Yahoo!
And Purnendu Ojha has retired as President & CEO of NexTag. Not sure if co-founder, Rafael Ortiz has also moved on, but that would make sense. According to this article, Jeffrey Katz, former CEO of Orbitz, took over on March 1st.

There have been many other Presidents, CEOs and key executives involved with Shopping.com, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, Yahoo! Shopping, and NexTag who have come and gone. But as I heard about Rob Solomon moving to Groupon and read about Purnendu retiring, I felt compelled to write something.

Hard to believe that I’m coming up on my 5 year anniversary of launching ComparisonEngines.


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