BARTON
Richard
Chief Executive Officer at Zillow Group
Organization: Zillow Group
Profession: Chief Executive Officer
Biography
Richard Barton is Chief Executive Officer at Zillow Group.
Career
As Chief Executive Officer of Zillow Group, Rich leads the company’s work to transform how people buy, sell, rent and finance homes. Rich co-founded Zillow in 2005 and served as CEO until 2010, when he became the company’s executive chairman. He returned as CEO in early 2019.
Before Zillow, Rich founded Expedia within Microsoft in 1994 and successfully spun the company out as a public company in 1999. He served as president, CEO and board director of Expedia from 1999 until 2003. He also co-founded and served as non-executive chairman of Glassdoor from 2007 to 2018.
Rich was a venture partner at Benchmark from 2005 until 2018. He’s served on many public company boards and continues to be a board director for Netflix, Qurate, Artsy, and Zillow Group.
Education
He earned a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering: Industrial Economics from Stanford University.
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