Monday, June 1, 2009

Chegg Snags Ask.com's Safka

Santa Clara-based Chegg, an online textbook rental firm backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), Foundation Capital, Gabriel Venture Partners and Primera Capital, said today that it has named Jim Safka as its new CEO. Safka was most recently CEO of Ask.com, and also served as CEO of Match.com. Safka replaces co-founder and CEO Osman Rashid, who become's Chairman of the firm's board of directors. Safka has also served at AT&T Wireless, E*TRADE Financial Corporation, Intuit, Alberto-Culver, Inc., Warner Bros. Inc., and Paramount Pictures.