Expedia Exec Durchslag Resigns

Expedia Worldwide president Scott Durchslag has abruptly resigned, according to media reports (first spotted at TechFlash).

GeekWire reports that a spokeswoman declined to say why Durchslag left Bellevue, WA-based Expedia (NASDAQ: [[ticker:EXPE]]) about a year after joining, and there wasn’t an SEC filing reflecting the departure before word got out, which indicates it wasn’t a planned exit. Durchslag previously was chief operating officer at Skype.

Expedia president and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will reportedly take over Durchslag’s duties, which were described on the company website as “managing the overall strategy and operations” for Expedia’s flagship online travel-booking business, including expanding worldwide and into new channels.

Khosrowshahi’s regular job is overseeing the entire Expedia portfolio of services, through a multilayered management structure that dates back to Expedia’s former days as an inside property of Barry Diller’s IAC holding company.

Expedia, one of the original dot-com success stories for the Seattle region following its spinout from Microsoft, recently broke its TripAdvisor business off into a separate, publicly traded company.

Author: Curt Woodward

Curt covered technology and innovation in the Boston area for Xconomy. He previously worked in Xconomy’s Seattle bureau and continued some coverage of Seattle-area tech companies, including Amazon and Microsoft. Curt joined Xconomy in February 2011 after nearly nine years with The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. He worked in three states and covered a wide variety of beats for the AP, including business, law, politics, government, and general mayhem. A native Washingtonian, Curt earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. As a past president of the state's Capitol Correspondents Association, he led efforts to expand statehouse press credentialing to online news outlets for the first time.