About Us / Executive Team
We're a like-minded, seasoned group of professionals who are passionate about helping job seekers and employees find career success. Many of us have worked together before and are excited to reunite to build the world's largest and most trusted jobs and career community.
Robert Hohman – Co-Founder, CEO
Robert Hohman is co-founder and chief executive officer of Glassdoor and member of the company's board of directors. Before creating Glassdoor, Bob was most recently president of Hotwire, a leading discount travel site and division of Expedia, Inc. Bob was one of the original team members of Expedia, and was part of the executive team that took it public in 1999. During his Expedia tenure, Bob also served as president of Classic Custom Vacations and executive vice president of Cruise & Packages for Expedia North America. In Expedia's early stage, Bob led the engineering team that built the cruise, hotel, and package booking systems. Bob started his career at Microsoft and worked as a software developer in a range of areas from Windows 95 to interactive television to online games. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University.
Tim Besse – SVP & Chief Marketing Officer
Tim Besse is co-founder, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Glassdoor. Previously, Tim was the director of product management and online marketing the Asia Pacific division of Expedia. In this role, Tim developed new markets in Australia, Japan, and China, and assumed general management responsibility of the Hotels.com business in Asia. In other Expedia roles Tim helped launch other early stage businesses, including Expedia's telesales and private label businesses as well as its online luxury offering, Classic Custom Vacations. Tim holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
Ryan Aylward – SVP of Engineering & Chief Technology Officer
Ryan Aylward is the senior vice president of engineering and chief technology officer of Glassdoor, who brings more than 10 years' experience in the software development field. Previously, Ryan was the senior director of engineering at EzRez Software where he led the development organization responsible for supporting more than 50 travel Web sites. Prior to EzRez, Ryan spent more than five years with Hotwire, where his duties involved both management and development roles, including building the original Web site. Ryan also served as an engineer at Motorola. Ryan holds a B.A. in computer science from the University of Notre Dame.
Diarmuid Russell – SVP & General Manager of Partner Services
Diarmuid Russell is senior vice president and general manager of partner services of Glassdoor. Diarmuid is responsible for the development and delivery of advertising products that meet the needs of Glassdoor's customers. Diarmuid is an experienced digital media executive with more than ten years' experience in consumer internet businesses in Europe, Australia and the U.S. Most recently he was responsible for the consumer division of GlobalEnglish, a leading English-language SaaS business. He has also held commercial and strategy roles at Expedia, BBC Worldwide and Lonely Planet. Diarmuid holds an MA in Economics from the University of St. Andrews and an MBA from INSEAD.
Tim Anderson – VP of Product Management
Tim Anderson is the vice president of product management of Glassdoor. Previously, Tim led product monetization efforts at Flickr and served as a senior member of the Yahoo! Photos product team. Prior to Yahoo!, Tim spent four years as a management consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. Tim holds a B.A. in Environmental Science and an MBA from the University of Virginia.
Jim Buttimer – VP of Business Development
Before joining Glassdoor, Jim was the CEO of CareerTV where he led and grew the company from site launch in 2007 until it was sold in April 2009. Prior to CareerTV, Jim held several roles at WetFeet including Vice President and General Manager where he helped build the online and print career research business for job seekers until the sale of the company at the end of 2006. Jim has also worked as a management consultant for Mercer Management Consulting and financial analyst for Bank of America. Jim holds a B.A. in Economics and Public Policy Studies from Duke University and an MBA from Cornell University's Johnson School.
Bill Herrick – VP of Finance
Bill Herrick is vice president of finance of Glassdoor and holds more than 20 years of financial and strategic business management experience. Most recently, Bill served as worldwide corporate controller at NComputing, Inc., which develops and delivers products and technology that make network computing affordable to schools, third world, and BRIC countries. Prior to that, he held several financial management positions at BroadVision, Keynote Systems, Zenith Electronics and United Airlines. He holds a B.A. in Business Economics from Brown University and an MBA degree from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In addition, Bill is a licensed CPA in California and Illinois.
Mark Palmer – General Counsel & VP of Business Operations
Prior to joining Glassdoor, Mark served in a similar role as Corporate Counsel and Director of Privacy at Jigsaw and brings more than 5 years of experience working in-house with user generated content communities. Prior to Jigsaw, Mark was in private practice working directly with start-ups and early stage companies. Mark also has more than 10 years of litigation and trial experience. Mark holds a Masters of Law in International Information & Communications Technology Law from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven Belgium, a J.D. from the Duquesne University School of Law and a B.A. from Dickinson College.
