Jeffrey Glueck, the former chief marketing officer for Travelocity, has joined Skyfire as CEO. Skyfire makes browsers for mobile devices.
While at Travelocity, Glueck helped the company grow from $3.5 billion in sales to $10.6 billion globally. As the company’s CMO, he led branding, customer experience, business development and the advertising model business, and introduced the Travelocity Guarantee and the “Roaming Gnome” advertising campaign.
Jeff grew Travelocity’s ad sales by nearly 40% in 2008 both on Travelocity.com and sister site IgoUgo.com, acommunity and user-generated destination content site.
Before joining Travelocity, Glueck co-founded Internet start-up Site59.com in 1999, which offered last-0minute packaging technology.
Glueck’s hire means that Skyfire co-founder Nitin Bhandari will become chief product officer.
