VP of Advanced Solutions for eBay takes over STUBHUB

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.