Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Sam Shank is the Co-founder and CEO of HotelTonight, the on-demand mobile hotel booking app.A travel-obsessed serial entrepreneur, Sam previously founded and was CEO of DealBase a travel deals search engine, and was CEO of TravelPost, a hotel reviews site. SideStep acquiredTravelPost and Sam stayed on as VP of business development until its fortunate acquisition by Kayak. Sam also worked in comparison shopping at Excite, CNET and NexTag. Sam attended the University of Virginia and received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.