Orbitz Founding CEO Gets Backing From Major Airlines and Hotel Chains for 'Experiences' Startup
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The Jeff Katz and Boston Consulting Group startup Dihedral -- with an assist from two major airlines and four hotel chains -- can turn out to be something huge or meander nowhere like some of the traveler journeys they'll be charting. Certainly the two have a track record and they are hitting all the right notes, including Big Data and experiences.
Jeff Katz, the former Sabre president, Swissair CEO, and founding CEO of Orbitz, is teaming up again with Boston Consulting Group, which drew up the plans for Orbitz, but this time, in addition to a couple of legacy airlines as investors, four major hotel chains are on board.
Founding partners Katz and BCG, which did some of the initial Orbitz conceptual groundwork before the site hired Katz in 2000, have been working on the San Francisco-based startup, Dihedral, in stealth mode for a year and a half.
In addition to founding partner and investor BCG, other Dihedral investors include affiliates of American Airlines Group and United Airlines (both of which became founders of Orbitz), as well as Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt
