Ketan is a Sr Product Manager at PayPal and manages WPS product. He has over 8 years of development and product management experience. He holds B.Tech degree in engineering from IIT and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Sarah Brubacher leads the top seller account management team. Her team is focused on developing strategic business partnerships with eBay’s top sellers. In her five years at eBay, Sarah has held the role of global policy manager for eBay’s listing practices policies and helped manage eBay’s Cross Border Trade business. Sarah holds an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Hema Budaraju leads Product Management for the Developer Program and her team is focused on supporting APIs, SDKs and Sandbox. Hema has been with eBay for a year and prior to that she has been in product management positions at Amazon, Nokia and Oracle. Hema holds a BS in Electronics and has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Rishi Tembe is a Sr. Product Manager at eBay and focuses on fostering trust in the marketplace through reputation management. He manages the eBay Feedback system and Seller Standards initiatives. Rishi is a geek at heart and prior to his current role, was a lead Software Engineer at SAP Labs and at eBay. In those roles he built enterprise systems focused on fraud detection, risk management and identity verification. Rishi holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California.

John McDonald leads the anti-counterfeiting enforcement team at eBay Marketplaces.  This team is responsible for preventing, detecting and removing intellectual property infringement from the marketplace and increasing buyer confidence in purchasing branded goods.  John is also responsible for coordinating global initiatives to increase payment security and consistency on eBay.  During his seven year tenure at eBay, John also led US Trust & Safety and managed several categories, including Home & Garden, Toys and Collectibles.  He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

"Ravi is currently managing Trust & Safety Product Management team responsible for delivering various frauds prevention initiatives for eBay’s Marketplace. His team is responsible for Fraud detection & verification platforms, Sign-in, Registration and Unpaid Item flow. Ravi joined eBay in Jan 2005 in Customer Support Product management group before transitioning to Trust & Safety in 2008. He successfully led the strategy and implementation of the various key initiatives within Customer support. His current responsibilities include driving new product launches towards preventing fraud and risk management working closely with Fraud policy, Information Security and Customer Support business units. Prior to joining eBay, he worked in High Tech consulting practice at BearingPoint Inc and as Engineering Manager at Plexus Software. Ravi has double Masters in Computer Science and in Mathematics. "

Michael is responsible for ensuring the security of PayPal’s 149 million accounts worldwide. Before PayPal, he was VP of Security and Utility Strategy at American Express. Prior to that, he was President of the Liberty Alliance - an open-standards consortium focused on identity management. He was the driving force behind the introduction and standardization of the Alliance’s federated identity concepts, and co-chaired its Identity Theft Prevention Working Group.   Michael was recently listed as one of ITSecurity.com’s 59 top influencers in the security industry.

As a product manager of PayPal Express Checkout, Suchit focuses on researching and developing best practices for PayPal by conducting multivariate testing, usability testing and analyzing web analytics through a variety of tools and vendors. Over the last three years, Suchit has been integral on renewing PayPal's focus on improving sales and conversion for the merchant. His research on web optimization has led to dramatic improvements on the PayPal user experience ultimately bringing incremental revenue to merchants across verticals.Prior to his focus on Express Checkout, Suchit was on the large merchant product management team focusing on the top 100 merchants at PayPal and improving integrations across the board. His work was pivotal to bringing branded merchants on board such as Wal Mart, Southwest Airlines and Zappos.com. Suchit received a bachelors of science in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and Economics from Northwestern University.

As Platform Product Manager, Anand Gangadharan is responsible for packaging eBay Commerce platform and technologies into a cohesive set of APIs. APIs are critical to enable the Developer community create innovative solutions for eBay buyers and sellers. Prior to eBay, Anand held senior R&D management positions at Avaya, Quintus and Mainsoft. Anand holds a BS degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering.

Dennis is in-house SEO manager for eBay. Apart from working with the product development teams to incorporate SEO best practices, Dennis also has set up and manages a full training program on SEO for eBay Inc worldwide. Next to having direct responsibility over the eBay organic search traffic, the in-house team of eBay has been consulting on SEO for Paypal, Skype, eBay’s Classifieds sites, Shopping.com and StumbleUpon. With seven years of Internet Marketing experience within eBay, Dennis has seen the majority of traffic driving sources for eBay. Started in The Netherlands office, managing direct partnerships with MSN, Yahoo and Advertising.com, Dennis moved in 2006 to the US, to coordinate Internet Marketing for all the International teams.

Madhu Gupta is Group Product Manager for the eBay Platform team, and leads the Selling Manager Applications product strategy. Madhu has been with the eBay Platform team for over 6 years, and has over 13 years of experience in software and Web Services.

Steve Hartman is the Senior Director of Publisher Development at eBay, responsible for eBay's global affiliate network.  Steve is a long-time eBay veteren and has held several leadership roles in the data warehouse organization along with leading the search and display advertising on ebay.com.  Prior to eBay Steve held roles at Creditland.com, an online financial services startup, and Accenture. Steve holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and dual M.B.A. degrees from Columbia University and the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.

Damon Hougland is a geek. He is the Senior Director of the PayPal Platform. This means he leads the Product Development teams focused on creating PayPal’s API service suites. He is also co-author of three books on Java and wireless technologies. He has a passion for all technologies that are viral and disruptive. More than anything he wants to make developers on the PayPal Platform successful beyond their wildest dreams.

Chuck Hudson is a Certified Paypal Developer and received the 2008 eBay Star Developer Award for Early Adoption for the iPhone/iPod Touch application iRibbit, which also won the 2008 eBay International Widget Contest. He has over 15 years of software development expertise and has developed web applications for companies ranging from mom and pop store fronts to Fortune 100 companies eCRM applications. As a registered iPhone and RIM developer he has multiple mobile applications used around the world in release. As well Chuck is a reviewer for Manning Publishing, speaks and teaches on various web and mobile technologies, and holds an MBA from Babson College in Entrepreneurship and Managing Technologically Innovative Enterprises.

Farhang Kassaei is a principal architect at eBay Marketplaces where he leads eBay platform design and architecture. During his career with eBay Farhang has been responsible for multiple infrastructure initiatives including identity and access management, open platform, user verification and risk, messaging, user generated content and user graph analysis and infrastructure. He is also a member of eBay Enterprise Architecture team.

Grant King is a development manager at ChannelAdvisor and also worked at Auctionworks/Marketworks prior to its acquisition by ChannelAdvisor in 2007. He was previously a speaker at the eBay Developers Conferences in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Apart from his last several jobs in Internet and eCommerce development Grant has also worked as an attorney and been a principal and contributing author on several technical books and newsletters. He lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife and two children.

Kristina Klausen leads the Seller Platform and Efficiency Team at eBay Marketplaces. The team is responsible for selling flows and tools on eBay and is focused on helping sellers reduce the operating cost and effort associated with selling on eBay. Her team also manages eBay's relationships with Certified Providers. In her six years at eBay, Kristina's prior roles have included most recently leading the eBay Shipping Team and also working in Corporate Strategy and Business Analytics. Kristina holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mohan Kumaresh is a Sr.Product Manager for Large Merchant Services at eBay and is currently focused on improving seller efficiency on eBay platform. He has over 13+ years of experience in software industry with a breadth in software development to product management. He has been with eBay for more than 3 years and has been instrumental in launching eBay Gift Cards, eBay Express and other loyalty initiatives. Prior to eBay, he worked as a product manager for CRM products at Oracle Corp. Before transitioning into product management, he was a software developer at Oracle Corp, Microsoft Corp and successfully shipped Oracle database servers (9i, 10G) and launched Windows Media 6.0 platform. Mohan holds a master degree in Computer Science & Engineering from University of Washington. His current interests are in the area of e-commerce, cloud computing and mobile applications.

In April 1995, Debbie Levitt founded As Was, a website design and business consulting firm that became eBay's first Certified Service Provider in 2004. As Was offers services for online sellers including branding, design, and personalized sales and marketing strategies. Consulting for eBay sellers has been the core As Was specialty since 2001. The average As Was client sees an eBay sales increase of 15% within weeks of working with As Was, and then continues growing. As Was can also help businesses with their eCommerce design, marketing, and print needs.

Mike Maffeo manages a team of product managers for the Seller Platform and Efficiency Team at eBay Marketplaces. Mike's team is responsible for all selling flows on eBay and is focused on helping sellers reduce the operating cost and effort associated with selling on eB ay.

In his eBay Developers Program role for the eBay API Platform, Max and his team enable third-party developers to extend the eBay marketplace by creating solutions that make it faster, easier and safer to buy and sell on eBay. In his Mobile role, Max drives mobile strategy, business development and product investment for eBay. In his previous roles at eBay, Max led an engineering team of 70+ developers responsible for development on eBay Stores, merchandising, registration, sign-in, trust & safety, and customer support tools. He also led the product and technology teams for Kijiji, eBay's local community classifieds websites, as well as eBay's New Business Ventures.

Neil Mansilla is the founder of Mansilla Dev, where he leads a team of developers in building Web and mobile applications in the financial, medical, and e-commerce sectors. Several years ago, his wife, Laura, became an eBay PowerSeller. Neil developed several tools to help optimize her business processes, from procurement to fulfillment. One of those tiny tools grew into what is now ahTEXT, a service that delivers real-time eBay account events directly to a seller's mobile device. Neil is a serial entrepreneur, starting his first Internet company in 1994. His role in all of his companies has been chief technical architect and developer. Neil's company is currently developing new and exciting applications built on the eBay platform. He is also an eBay Certified Engineer and Certified Consultant.

Mr. Mansour has over 25 years of industry experience and has been with eBay over 2 years. As part of his role with eBay Global Information Security group, he is involved with all aspects of information security from application security to infrastructure security to platform and SOA related security and risk concerns. Prior to eBay Mr. Mansour was with Cisco Systems as Principal Architect for Application Oriented Networking business unit at Cisco. At Cisco, his focus was on SOA and Application Security initiatives. Prior to that, Mr. Mansour was CTO and Chief Architect at SOA Software.

Tina Mazzei is the Program Manager for the eBay Developers Program and leads the Selling Manager Applications program build out under the eBay Developers Program. She has been a program/project manager with eBay for over 4 years. Prior to her work at eBay she has worked as a Sr. Project Manager for Sun Microsystems and Sanmina.

Nilofer Merchant founded Rubicon in 1999 after gaining 15 years of operational experience in key leadership positions at notable technology firms such as Apple, Autodesk, and GoLive (later acquired by Adobe). Time and time again she has used her sharp expertise to design industry-leading go-to-market programs, winning notable awards from CRN, VAR Business and Marketing Association in the fields of marketing and channel development. Through her many successes (and even her losses), Nilofer has honed her multidisciplinary approach for assessing a business situation clearly, applying critical wisdom, and defining a strategic direction.

As the leader of Rubicon, Nilofer has built a distinguished team of fellow consultants and has collaborated with a wide range of executive leaders in Silicon Valley at client firms such as HP, Autodesk, Cogito, Pinnacle, Symantec, Adobe, VA Software, Riverside, and others. She builds 1-3 year future plans for her clients, and continually delivers significantly increased results to their bottom line, driving revenue growth, market share-price and profits. One recent client engagement directly resulted in her client capturing, and clearly quantifying, an additional $28 million in profit over 6 months.

Nilofer earned her MBA from Santa Clara University, a BS in Economics from University of San Francisco, and is a certified Instructor of Facilitative Leadership from Interaction Associates.

Joel is a veteran software engineering professional with 14 years of software development and technical management experience. Joel currently oversees product development, software quality assurance and information technology teams for Mercent, responsible for driving the development of Mercent Retail, an on demand software solution serving online retailers, using iterative software development practices as well as ensuring the infrastructure and processes are in place to meet the demands of a hosted software solution. Prior to joining Mercent, Joel worked at Seattle Public Utilities where he designed and architected software solutions to expand the online services available for the community. At ImageX.com, Joel contributed to the successful IPO and subsequent acquisition by FedEx/Kinkos. Joel also spent almost three years developing tools to manage network infrastructure for The Boeing Company.  Joel holds a B.S. in Business, Accounting from Montana State University.

Ganga is a Sr. Product Manager in the eBay Platform team. He has been with eBay for the past 4 1/2 years working on some key eBay platform initiatives. Ganga has been instrumental in the launching of several products including the eBay Client Alerts APIs, the Merchandising APIs, the JS and Flex toolkits and the Finding APIs. Prior to his current role as a Product Manager, Ganga was part of the eBay Product Development team. Ganga brings a strong technical and product background to his role.

Belmer Negrillo joined eBay in 2008 when the startup VUVOX was acquired by eBay, and now works in the Rich Media team within the User Experience Design group. He has over 10 years of experience creating and producing engaging multimedia experiences. Prior to VUVOX, he worked as User Experience Designer at IDEO in key projects for Microsoft, HP and Nike, and as Art Director in top world advertising agencies like Ogilvy Interactive and DM9DDB. He has won awards at Cannes, One Show NY, the Danish Index2005, and has published works for the Italian Fabrica, in the German Dos Logos book and in the Japanese Web Designing Magazine.

Rekha Patel has been with eBay four years. Rekha is on the developer technical support team that helps developers with API questions, usage and implementation.

Jonathan has been working in Internet Marketing at eBay for three years driving innovation. He is familiar with both business development and technical implementation, helping affiliates and partners achieve great results through eBay’s platform. His most recent project was as technical lead on the eBay Sidebar for Internet Explorer , powered by Silverlight. He has also worked with Mozilla, Yahoo and Facebook integrating eBay features into their platforms. Prior to eBay, he worked at Accenture and BAE Systems in technology research. Jonathan has an Engineering Doctorate in Complex Emergent Systems from the University of Manchester.

Rolf Skyberg is currently a Platform Product Manager and Evangelist at eBay Inc. While helping to identify and develop innovative methods for improving on and off-platform business and buyer experiences, his job titles have ranged from "Researcher" to "Disruptive Innovator". In this time, he has been a member of eBay Research Labs, filed several ecommerce patents, and driven a number of innovation project teams. Rolf has been a featured speaker at the Web 2.0 EXPO, OSCON, Emerce e.day, and IBM Research Labs. Rolf speaks on a number of topics centered on fueling and focusing corporate innovation, applying human needs to the development of online products and services, and creating a healthy relationship between the corporation and the consumer. His presentations are always rooted around some memorable story you probably don't know yet, whether it's the flourishing of bird species in a desert environment, the building of the first roller-coaster, or the petri dish we know as Web 2.0.

Marshall is a Senior Software Engineer at ChannelAdvisor Corporation, and has been an active member of the eBay and PayPal Development Communities since their inception. He has been a speaker at each of the four previous eBay Developer Conferences, covering topics of efficient change management, checkout design and integration, and PayPal Payment Review. As an eBay Certified Developer and PayPal Certified Developer and active developer on both platforms since 1999, he has extensive experience with the various components of the eBay and PayPal functionality and APIs.

Mr. Sukow is the systems architect, leveraging experience from his studies of computer science at the University of Victoria. Andrew provides leadership for the continued development of the Terapeak system and has demonstrated proficiency with one of the world's largest data sets from eBay. The architecture he has developed is scalable, dynamic and extremely fast. To meet the challenge presented by the vast eBay dataset, Andrew conceived and implemented a hybrid solution of best practices for handling and processing over a billion transactions. Andrew has led his development team to create an elegant solution to provide analysis of e-commerce data with extraordinary speed and depth of research.

Keith Wescourt has been a product manager on the eBay seller and platform teams for 5 years, where he has led planning and design of selling features, selling APIs, and eBay's picture hosting platform and its end-user features. Prior to joining eBay, his career includes software product management/marketing and software R&D manager positions and consulting roles at both software industry and end-user companies.

Brian Williams was a founder and CTO at VUVOX, a media sharing website which allowed users to upload photos, video and audio and create rich, interactive presentations and share them online. He joined eBay in 2008 when VUVOX was acquired by eBay, and now works in the Rich Media team within the User Experience Design group, focused on bringing engaging, compelling experiences to eBay's users. He has over 15 years of experience building products and technology in the areas of media authoring, publishing and sharing.