Biography of Josh Silverman
Silverman got an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also graduated of Brown University, located in the smallest U.S. state, Rhode Island.
He began his career on the staff of U.S. Senator Bill Bradley. This former basketball player represented New Jersey and was presidential candidate in 2000.
Silverman serves as Senior Consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton. In 1998, he launched Evite, the first website of organization of social events allowing to manage and send invitations online. He became its CEO. This site is currently owned by the company of Barry Diller, IAC / InterActiveCorp.
In 2003, Josh Silverman joined eBay and put on a string positions, including vice president and general manager of eBay Netherlands and Marktplaats.nl. He also participated in the launch of the European company eBay Classifieds. Then he became CEO of Shopping.com, an eBay subsidiary.
With nearly ten years of experience in the management of hyper global growth of web companies, Silverman becomes on March 24, 2008, CEO of Skype. André Haddad succeeds to Josh Silverman to the functions of CEO of Shopping.com.
Taking the control of Skype, Josh Silverman demonstrates his know-how and transforms Skype into the leader in the telecommunications sector. Between 2009 and 2010, the number of users increases by 40% and the number of minutes of use by 70%. 30% owned by eBay, Skype counts 500 million users and a turnover of $ 185 million in the third quarter of 2009.
In October 2010, Josh Silverman joined the investment fund Greylock Partners. Tony Bates, a former "senior vice president" of Cisco replaces Josh Silverman as Director General of Skype.
So they Etsy guy gets his marching orders from Barry Diller.
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