| (Westport, CT) – Over 170 people gathered at the Inn at Longshore in Westport on Monday, October 19 to celebrate the mission of the March of Dimes and to honor Jay S. Walker, Chairman of Walker Digital and founder of Priceline.com, as this year’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt Outstanding Corporate Citizen. Over $115,000 was raised to benefit the March of Dimes mission to give every baby a healthy start.
Jay Walker, one of America’s best-known entrepreneurs, has founded multiple successful startup companies that serve more than 75 million customers in 15 different industries. Mr. Walker is chairman of Walker Digital, a privately-held R&D lab founded in 1994 and based in Stamford, Connecticut. Walker Digital has invented hundreds of solutions for a wide variety of business problems. The company specializes in creating innovative applications that work with large-scale networks such as cell phones and the Internet.
Mr. Walker is best known as the founder of Priceline.com, which brought a new level of value to the travel industry. Today, Priceline is a profitable, multi-billion-dollar public company with tens of millions of active customers and thousands of employees around the world.
The evening’s award was presented to Mr. Walker by Jane Massey, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the March of Dimes, and Ralph Bahna, Chairman of Priceline.com.
Participating restaurants of the Gold Coast Signature Chefs Auction included Abis, Angela Mia, Capital Grill Stamford, Coromandel, Market, The Melting Pot of Darien, Mitchell’s Fish Market, Splash (the evening’s host restaurant), Sweet on You, Tuscan Oven and Valencia Luncheria.
The event was proudly presented by Priceline.com and sponsored by Andrew and Linda Schwartz (Gold Family Sponsor), Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, P.C. and Day Pitney, LLP (Bronze Sponsors) and media sponsor 95.9 The Fox.
The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org.
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