Dave Stephenson Photo: Olli Tumelius/Airbnb By Nina Trentmann Nina Trentmann The Wall Street Journal Biography @Nina_Trentmann nina.trentmann nina.trentmann@wsj.com Updated Nov. 26, 2018 4:29 pm ET
Airbnb Inc. has hired another executive from Amazon.com Inc., this time naming Dave Stephenson as chief financial officer of the vacation-rental portal ahead of a potential initial public offering.
Mr. Stephenson will join the San Francisco-based company in early January, according to a company blog post, and will report to Airbnb Chief Executive Brian Chesky. He joins Airbnb after 17 years at Amazon, where he was most recently vice president and finance chief of the company’s world-wide consumer organization and responsible for Amazon’s