Christopher Soder Promoted At Priceline

Priceline.com recently announced the appointment of Newtown resident Christopher L. Soder, 47, to the position of president, North American Travel. He was priceline.com’s executive vice president, travel services. In his new and expanded role, Mr Soder will be responsible for all of priceline.com’s US travel services as well as domestic information technology and operations functions. 

Mr Soder joined priceline.com in February 2000 as president of hotel services and led the development and launch of priceline.com’s cruise and vacation package offerings. In July 2002, he was promoted to executive vice president, lodging and vacation products. 

In March 2005, he became priceline.com’s executive vice president, travel services. Before joining priceline.com, he was Western Region vice president, growth markets, for AT&T, where he was responsible for the company’s complete technology portfolio sales to more than 20,000 business customers across a ten-state region.