An unemployed, homeless man who spent months living in hotels off loyal program points, has found a job as the CEO of an Internet advertising firm.
Since being kicked out of his foreclosed home on Jan. 17, the former corporate development manager has relied on all those miles accumulated during years on the road to find a place to stay -- a Holiday Inn Express here, a Hampton Inn there and a Motel 6 in between.
But that is about to end. On Monday, Kennedy started work as the new CEO of Netword, an Internet advertising company that tries to pair search results with local advertisers.
Kennedy was featured two months ago on "Good Morning America" and other media outlets. He said that the managers of a venture capital firm that is funding Netword saw one of those reports and brought him in for an interview.
"I was probably down to three or four weeks" of free nights, Kennedy said.
And that was only after Wyndham Hotels gave him some extra points after hearing about his plight.
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/unemployed-homeless-man-living-off-frequent-flier-hotel/story?id=10628378Before the recession, Kennedy helped a software company acquire a rival, checking over the finances in a job that paid him $120,000 a year.
Then he had to live off $450 a week from the state of California. That money went to the lease on a car he used to drive up and down the coast for job interviews, his cell phone, gas, car insurance, his storage locker and, of course, food.