Thomas Breitling
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| Born | 19 June 1969 St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Occupation | President of Breitling Ventures |
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Thomas Breitling (born 19 June 1969 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American entrepreneur.
His father was a pilot for Northwest Airlines after serving in the Air Force. His mother was a nurse. Breitling was educated at St. John the Baptist in Savage, Minnesota through the 8th grade. He then went on to the Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield, Minnesota, where he attended high school and played basketball. He then went on to study at the University of San Diego, California. He was a member of the Sigma Pi fraternity, and graduated with a degree in Communications, with a minor in Business Administration, in 1991.
[edit] Career
Breitling began as a weatherman for KHIZ-TV, then was promoted to sports anchor. In 1993, Tim Poster, asked him to help him run his startup company, Las Vegas Reservation Systems. Breitling served as its vice president until he co-founded Travelscape.com in March 1998. Travelscape.com grossed $104 million in sales in 1999, from just $800,000 in sales in 1990. Breitling and Poster sold Travelscape to Expedia for over $100 million.
From June 2003 to September 2005, Breitling served as vice-chairman of the Golden Nugget Las Vegas properties in Las Vegas and Laughlin, Nevada. Breitling and Poster acquired the Golden Nugget properties in June 2003 for $215 million; their running of the casino was the subject of the reality television show The Casino. In September 2005, they sold the Golden Nugget for approximately $340 million.
Breitling has since published his autobiography, Double or Nothing.
[edit] Personal Life
Breitling married model/actress Vanessa Tarazona in a lavish ceremony on September 12, 2007, in Lake Como, Italy.
