Congrats to Chris Tsakalakis!

  Chris Tsakalakis, VP of Advanced Solutions for eBay (included eBay Stores, ProStores and the eBay Developer's program), is moving over to help manage the StubHub/tickets integration.  It's part of the eBay acquisition 'play book' to parachute in a senior eBay person to help with the integration and also provide back-fill should the acquired exec(s) depart.  (e.g. Rajiv at Skype, Kazim in Paypal, etc.).

We've been working with Chris for a couple of years in the eBay dev program part of his responsibilities and he's always been great to deal with so it's exciting to see him moving up the eBay management ladder.   Also, with the documented Brain Drain we've been following here in detail, it's refreshing to see a long-time eBay VP staying to do something new vs. leaving eBay.

If you want to learn more about Chris, here's a snazzy bio  also here's the post he made to the eBay store forum and the reaction from sellers.

Lori Goler will be taking over for Chris and reporting to Mike Linton (who we previously reported was the CMO of BBUY and will now be running non-core eBay properties).

The eBay Developer program is going to Max Mancini.  I met Max at the EEF and he has an interesting background.  He has an entrepreneurial background (CEO ConsumerReview.com) and was last involved with Kijiji at eBay.

Comments

[susan Russell]

I bought 4 tickets from stubhub for $79.00 each only to find out that they are only worth $45.00 each. I called Stubhub to complain and demand my refund of the overcharge of the tickets. There response is that they can charge what ever price they choose. And don't care about scalping or ripping off old people. LET THE WORLD BEWARE OF STUBHUB I am old and just got ripped off. Not to mention the $31.00 I paid handling. What has the world come too?
YOU DO WHAT IS RIGHT BECAUSE IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO
Susan

[Randy Smythe]

Chris is a good guy and I'm sure he is looking forward to the new challenge. Congrats Chris!