Chelsea Clinton is joining the board of directors of online travel booking site Expedia.
Documents filed with securities regulators say the daughter of defeated U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has joined its 14-member board.
The company is controlled by Barry Diller. Chelsea Clinton is also a director of another company that Diller controls, IAC/InterActiveCorp.
The Expedia filing on Friday came a day after publishers Penguin Young Readers announced it will publish a children's book by Chelsea Clinton on May 30. The book is called "She Persisted."
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IAC
Chelsea Clinton And IAC: While Some Companies Argue About Women On Boards, IAC Just Does It
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
BY ALICE KORNGOLD - FAST COMPANY
While others debate whether boards should have one woman or two or three, whether quotas should be mandated or not, where on earth to find a woman who has adequate experience or intellect, and whether or not a woman might degrade shareholder value, IAC/InterActiveCorp did something bold.
This leading global internet company elected two women directors who will each contribute unique value to the IAC board: Chelsea Clinton, 31, who is pursuing a doctorate at Oxford University and is working at the Clinton Global Initiative; and Sonali de Rycker, 38, a general partner at Accel Partners, where she focuses on investments in the consumer Internet and digital media sectors.
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Barry Diller
Trump's presidential run is an 'evil miracle,' Barry Diller says
Media executive Barry Diller called
Donald Trump's presidential run an "evil miracle," telling CNBC on Tuesday that he can't believe the GOP presidential candidate's campaign is still going.
"The idea that clown, bad clown, could actually be president of the United States, it just insults all of us," the chairman of IAC/InterActive and Expedia, Inc. said.
This isn't the first time that Diller and Trump have butted heads.
At the Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit in New York,
Diller said he would move out of the country if Trump won the election. He also called him a "self-promoting huckster who found a vein. A vein of meanness and nastiness."
Trump tweeted on Saturday that Diller was a "sad and pathetic figure," pointing out Diller's losses on The Daily Beast and Newsweek and saying the executive was "100 percent clueless on Internet."
Diller also expressed his belief that Hillary Clinton would win the election in his interview with CNBC, despite intense scrutiny. He said that he believed Clinton's long time in the political spotlight had made her a target.
Overall, Diller expressed disgust at the "horrible process we found ourselves in."
"The only thing that I would like for [the election] is to be over because he has lasted too long," Diller said. "And, I really hope that the one thing that comes out of this is we will, first of all, say 'Please do not speak of politics for at least another year and a half.' Although I fear the next hour of the next day, we'll be off to the races again."
Diller's comments came at Virtuous Circle 2016, in Menlo Park, California. The conference brings together internet business leaders and elected officials to talk about industry trends, policy and innovation.
IAC is the parent company of such internet businesses as Match Group, Home Advisor and Vimeo, as well as publications like The Daily Beast and CollegeHumor. It also owned Expedia, which it spun out into Expedia, Inc. in 2005.
