Liberty Interactive Corporation, parent company for Backcountry.com and Bodybuilding.com, extended the contract of its president and CEO Gregory B. Maffei through 2019.
“We are extremely pleased that Greg will continue in his leadership role for another five years,” said John Malone, Chairman of Liberty Interactive and Liberty Media. “His creativity and strategic vision have been transformational and have created tremendous shareholder value since he joined us in 2005.”
Liberty Interactive Corporation operates and owns interests in a broad range of digital commerce businesses. Those businesses are currently attributed to two tracking stock groups: the QVC Group and the Liberty Ventures Group. The businesses and assets attributed to the QVC Group, which trades under the tickers QVCA and QVCB on the Nasdaq, consist of Liberty Interactive's subsidiary, QVC, Inc., and its interest in HSN, Inc., and the businesses and assets attributed to the recently created Liberty Ventures Group, which trades under the Nasdaq tickers LVNTA and LVNTB.
Liberty Ventures consists of all of Liberty Interactive Corporation's businesses and assets other than those attributed to the QVC Group, including its interest in Expedia, its subsidiaries Provide Commerce, Backcountry.com, Bodybuilding.com, CommerceHub, LMC Right Start and Evite, and minority interests in Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Lending Tree and Interval Leisure Group.
“I am thrilled to continue in my role at Liberty,” said Greg Maffei, Liberty Interactive and Liberty Media President and CEO. “I want to thank John and the Board members for the support I have received as we have made significant investments and transformative changes. Today, Liberty has a portfolio of businesses that are very well-positioned for the digital mobile era, led by great management teams, with the resources to be opportunistic in the future.”
