{"id":27574,"date":"2026-02-19T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=27574"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:28:00","slug":"debby-soo","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/profile\/debby-soo\/","title":{"rendered":"Debby Soo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Debby Soo, CEO of OpenTable\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Debby Soo is the CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opentable.com\/blog\/opentable-ceo-debby-soo\/\">OpenTable<\/a>, bringing\u00a0expertise\u00a0in product-first commercialization, strategic\u00a0partnerships\u00a0and international growth. She is also a founding member and co-head of Booking Holdings\u2019 Diversity &amp; Inclusion Steering Committee. Prior to OpenTable, she spent 10+ years building KAYAK\u2019s travel commercial team,\u00a0establishing\u00a0the APAC business, and then overseeing global business development for both KAYAK and OpenTable. She started her career at Citi as an investment banking analyst for the technology sector before joining Google\u2019s Strategic Partnership Group where she focused on global content acquisition and partnerships for Google Maps. Debby is a graduate of Stanford University and has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors at The Kraft Heinz Company.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Connect on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/debby-soo-6347873\/\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25813,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/27574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/27574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27614,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/27574\/revisions\/27614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}