New CEOs named for Skype, Shopping.com
Online auction house eBay Inc. on Monday named Josh Silverman chief executive of Internet telephony service Skype.
Silverman, currently CEO of Shopping.com, another unit of San Jose-based eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), has more than nine years of experience in running global consumer Internet companies, eBay said.
Michael van Swaaij, who was appointed interim CEO in October 2007, will stay "actively involved with Skype," eBay said.
Prior to joining Shopping.com, he held a variety of leadership roles at eBay, including general manager for Marktplaats.nl cash advance. He was also responsible for helping to build eBay’s classifieds businesses in Europe. Before joining eBay in 2003, Silverman was co-founder and CEO of Evite.
Succeeding Silverman as Shopping.com CEO is another eBay veteran, Andre Haddad. Haddad joined the company in 2001 when eBay acquired iBazar, a European online marketplace he co-founded and ran in Paris.
Most recently, Haddad was senior vice president of product at eBay.