SAN JOSE, Calif., July 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- eBay's product
and technology organization was strengthened today with the
announcement of Pete Thompson as
Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, and
Mazen Rawashdeh as Senior Vice
President and Chief Technology Officer. Both will be members of
eBay's executive leadership team, reporting to President and CEO
Devin Wenig.
Thompson brings more than 20 years of experience building new
products and services across a range of industries and
technologies. Thompson joins eBay from Amazon where he served as
Vice President of Alexa Voice
Service. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer of TiVo
where he drove the merger and integration between Rovi and TiVo.
Prior to TiVo, he held executive roles at a variety of companies,
including Microsoft, T-Mobile, Ericsson, and Sonos.
As eBay's product experience leader, Thompson will be focused on
simplifying an increasingly personalized and discovery-based
shopping experience, while providing the enhanced tools and
insights that help eBay sellers succeed.
eBay veteran Rawashdeh spent eight years in technology
leadership roles with the Company from 2003 to 2011 before
departing to serve as Vice President, Infrastructure Operation
Engineering at Twitter where he helped scale the business through
its IPO. After four additional years as an angel investor and tech
advisor, Rawashdeh returned to eBay in 2016 to lead Platform
Engineering. As Chief Technology Officer, Rawashdeh will continue
to lead platform engineering and the Company's infrastructure and
platform architecture, as well as AI, research and data science,
payment and risk engineering, and eBay's third-party developer
ecosystem and APIs.
Thompson starts July 29th and,
like Rawashdeh, will be based in San
Jose, CA.
eBay is also announcing the arrival of two additional executives
who will expand the company's leadership experience across search
and product analytics:
- VP, Search Engineering: Starting today, Scott Gaffney will join eBay, applying 20 years
of experience — including most recently as VP Engineering, Web
Search & Intelligent Agents at Yahoo — to eBay's search
technology teams.
- VP, Product Analytics: Steve
Metz is returning to eBay, where he has spent most of his
career, from Amazon. Metz will be charged with further enhancing
the eBay buying and selling experience by leveraging new product
and business insights from eBay's vast ecosystem. He will start
August 12.
About eBay
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is a global commerce leader
including the Marketplace, StubHub and Classifieds platforms.
Collectively, we connect millions of buyers and sellers around the
world, empowering people and creating opportunity for all. Founded
in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay
is one of the world's largest and most vibrant marketplaces for
discovering great value and unique selection. In 2018, eBay enabled
$95 billion of gross merchandise
volume. For more information about the company and its global
portfolio of online brands, visit www.ebayinc.com.
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