Ben Kazez launched the FlightTrack app in November 2008, and it became the best-selling travel app worldwide, dubbed “brilliant” by David Pogue of the New York Times. Funded by app sales, Mobiata grew to millions of dollars in annual revenue, with a suite of travel apps featured by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, TechCrunch, and CNN. In November 2010 Mobiata was acquired by Expedia, where Ben now leads mobile product design.

Ben earned his BA in Computer Science magna cum laude from Carleton College. He went on to design and engineer features for Mac OS X at Apple before eventually founding Mobiata. In 2009 BusinessWeek named Ben one of America’s Top 25 Best Young Entrepreneurs.

Ben enjoys traveling, cooking, and studying opera singing.