Clem Bason is President of the Hotwire Group, which includes Hotwire.com®, travel-ticker.com®, and CarRentals.com™. He oversees all aspects of the three businesses.

Bason joined Hotwire as Vice President of Hotel Supplier Relations in February 2006, bringing deep experience in business strategy and partnership development to the company. Clem also served as Vice President of Merchandising, where he was responsible for retailing and led creative direction on the site.

Prior to Hotwire, Clem helped lead Gap Brand's Strategy and Business Development group, where he was responsible for strategic planning and new business development. Clem also spent five years with McKinsey & Co., leading engagements primarily for retail, consumer goods and online clients in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Clem received an M.B.A. from the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Delaware. With family on both coasts, Clem enjoys spending his free time on the beaches with his wife and two sons in Delaware and San Diego.

As vice president of marketing, Cheryl Law currently oversees online and offline marketing, as well as public relations, consumer insights programs and analytics, and business development.

Since joining Hotwire in August 2000 prior to the site's launch, Cheryl has led all consumer research for the company, including concept and copy development, category segmentation, and customer satisfaction tracking.

Before joining Hotwire, Cheryl conducted consumer research at Procter & Gamble for eight years, where she focused on brands, including Crest, Folgers, and Pantene. During her tenure, Cheryl helped grow the Pantene brand from a 2 percent share in the United States to the No. 1 hair care brand in the world.

Cheryl received a B.A. in economics from Vanderbilt University (with honors) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

An avid traveler with stamps from over 50 countries on her passport, Barbara Messing applies her passion for travel to her role as vice president of Travel Ticker and new business development at Hotwire. Barbara is responsible for overseeing the new Travel Ticker product, which delivers handpicked, insider deals to motivated travelers.

Over the past four years, Barbara has held a number of key leadership roles at Hotwire, including ownership of the Hotwire airline product, management and oversight of product development for the company's airline, car, hotel, cruise and package products, and strategic leadership. Most recently, Barbara was vice president of retailing and special projects.

Prior to joining Hotwire, Barbara worked as a director at Ingenio and as a segment producer for the Travel Channel, a television network of Discovery Communications.

Barbara received a B.A. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Ravi Chandrasekaran is vice president of product at Hotwire, overseeing the company's product management and business development teams. He is also responsible for the design and function of the interface that guides the customer experience for the Hotwire site.

Most recently, Ravi served as senior director of product management, where he introduced the innovation lab, a Hotwire initiative to expand research and development opportunities critical to the success of the company.

Prior to joining Hotwire in 2001, Ravi worked at Viant Inc., a San Francisco-based Internet consulting firm, building software solutions for financial services and electronics clients. Ravi also led management consulting projects focused on pricing strategy for Fortune 500 accounts at Talus Solutions and was a lead software engineer at Sabre Decision Technologies.

Ravi received a B.S. in Mathematical & Computational Sciences and Biological Sciences from Stanford University.

Jai joined Hotwire in 2002 and since then has led many of the efforts that resulted in the industry-leading technology platforms that power Hotwire.com and Travel Ticker. In his current role as Vice President, Jai leads all technology development and innovation efforts for the two sites.

Jai began his career at Oracle Corporation before moving on to architecture and management roles at companies like Zanza Software and Broadvision. His expertise is in Java, C++, and high volume internet applications.

You'd never guess upon meeting Jai that his passions are the latest gadgets and fast cars. In that way, he's like James Bond, helping Hotwire wiggle its way out of various technology-related crises, in our case usually related to implementing a new, high quality travel innovation in about half the time it would take any other company.

Jai received a B.S. and M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell University. When not at Hotwire, Jai enjoys hitting the road with his daughter for, you guessed it, a little travel.

As Vice President of Finance, Joe oversees Hotwire's global finance and accounting functions. A long-time employee, Joe joined Hotwire in 2001 and has participated in the design and implementation of almost every component of Hotwire's financial and accounting infrastructure.

Before Hotwire, Joe spent over 15 years in accounting and management functions for various international unions and associations in the Washington DC area. There, he was taught the "dark arts" of cost management, which he applies to Hotwire every day to help the company run lean and profitable. Employees often comment that there's a reason he has "savage" in his last name.

Joe received a B.A. in Economics and Financial Management and an M.A. in Accountancy from the Catholic University of America. When not running the numbers, he enjoys scuba diving, hanging out with his dogs, and of course, traveling.