| Stanford University School of Business, MBA | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BS |
Since June 2007, Thomas Layton has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Metaweb Technologies, Inc. He served as CEO of OpenTable from 2001 to June 2007. During his time as CEO, OpenTable dramatically expanded its number of restaurant partners from 500 to 7,000. Online reservations also grew to 2 million per month.
Previously, Thomas was a co-founder of CitySearch, Inc. which later merged with Ticketmaster and is now a subsidiary of USA Networks. Prior to his experience at Ticketmaster-CitySearch, Thomas was with Score Learning Corporation, a leading educational services company, where he served first as Chief Financial Officer and later as President and Chief Operating Officer. From 1986 to 1988, Thomas was an Associate Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. Thomas holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| SquareTrade | 4/00 | Series B | $9M | 7 |
| SquareTrade | 1/00 | Seed | $300k | 4 |
