Travelzoo CEO Steps Down and Chairman Assumes Role

Dennis Schaal

October 1st, 2015 at 4:23 PM EDT

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Outgoing CEO Chris Loughlin is the fall guy in this CEO shuffle. Although a public and "controlled" company, nothing happens at Travelzoo without the approval of founder and current chief talent officer Ralph Bartel.

Travelzoo CEO Chris Loughlin is stepping down, the company announced, and chairman Holger Bartel has stepped in as global CEO, effective immediately. Holger Bartel, who was Travelzoo CEO from 2008 to 2010, is the brother of Ralph Bartel, the Travelzoo founder who controls the public company. Loughlin, who has been Travelzoo CEO since July 2010 and has worked at the company in various capacities since 2001, will leave Travelzoo at the end of the year "at his own request to pursue other opport

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