Board of Directors

Julius Genachowski

Chief of Business Operations, IAC/InterActive Corp

Julius Genachowski is Chief of Business Operations of IAC/InterActiveCorp and serves in the Office of the Chairman, along with Barry Diller, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Victor Kaufman, Vice Chairman; and Tom McInerney, Chief Financial Officer.

IAC/InterActiveCorp is one of the world's largest and most profitable interactive commerce companies, operating leading businesses including Ticketmaster, HSN, LendingTree, Match.com, Citysearch, ServiceMagic, Evite, Entertainment Publications, Interval, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, TripAdvisor and Ask Jeeves. From 1998-2002, IAC (then called USA Networks, Inc.) operated leading entertainment business including USA Network, Sci Fi Channel, Studios USA, and USA Films.

Mr. Genachowski had served as IAC's General Counsel since July 2000. He joined the Company in late 1997 as General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Business Development, for USA Broadcasting, IAC's former television station and programming group.

Mr. Genachowski served as a member of the Boards of Directors of Expedia, Inc., Hotels.com, Ticketmaster, and Styleclick while each was a publicly traded company.

Mr. Genachowski was Chief Counsel to Chairman Reed Hundt of the Federal Communications Commission from 1994-1997. He served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and, before that, to retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He was also a law clerk to Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Genachowski worked in Congress on the staff of the Select Committee investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, and for then-U.S. Representative, now Senator, Charles E. Schumer.

Mr. Genachowski received his J.D. in 1991 from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, where he served on the Harvard Law Review, and his B.A. in history, magna cum laude, from Columbia College in 1985, where he re-established Columbia's oldest newspaper Acta Columbiana, and was Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Columbia Guide to New York.

Business Week recently listed Mr. Genachowski as one of 23 "Managers to Watch" in the media industry.

Mr. Genachowski lives in Washington DC with his wife, Rachel Goslins, and two children, Jake and Lilah.

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