June Seller Check-In

Name: June Seller Check-In
Start: 2021-06-24T13:30:00-07:00
End: 2021-06-24T14:30:00-07:00

eBay Seller Events
Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 1:30 PM (PDT)

About this event

Your monthly opportunity to hear the latest marketplace and product updates straight from eBay leaders, get tactical selling tips, and have your questions answered live.

Check out the exciting lineup of speakers we have planned for this event!

Seller Check-In Agenda*

1:30 - 1:35 | Welcome – Rebecca Michals, Director, Seller Engagement and Community

1:35 - 1:45 | Seller news roundup and seller offsite marketing tips — Andrea Stairs, VP Seller Community and CMO, North America

1:45 - 2:00 | Onsite marketing promotions strategies and demos — Harry Temkin, VP, Seller Experience

2:00 - 2:10 | eBay’s Buyer Experience strategy — Bradford Shellhammer, VP, Buyer Experience & GM, eBay New York

2:10 - 2:20 | Leveraging structured data for SEO and Search — Mohan Patt, VP, Core Product Experience

2:20 – 2:30 | Questions and answers

*Subject to change

Speakers

Mohan Patt

eBay

VP, Core Product Experience

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Bradford Shellhammer

eBay

VP, Buyer Experience & GM, eBay New York

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Harry Temkin

eBay

VP, Head of Seller Experience

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Andrea Stairs

eBay

VP, CMO & Seller Community, North America

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Rebecca Michals

eBay

Director, Seller Community and Engagement

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Mohan Patt

eBay

Mohan Patt is an experienced product and engineering leader with a passion for product strategy, and an entrepreneurial mindset for innovation. Mohan’s team focuses on the following key areas - growing eBay’s active buyer base through acquisition, retention and driving frequency of purchases, delivering an effective customer landing experiences, driving conversion on the platform through search and merchandising experiences and delivering a retail standard shopping experience through post transaction services such as guaranteed shipping, returns and claims management. Mohan’s expertise spans two decades of leadership experience in software engineering, primarily in building large scale commerce applications, creating engaging customer experiences in web and mobile, and re-imagining the power of tech. In his current role, Mohan manages a global team of product managers and engineers that is core to the product experience team at eBay. Mohan sets the tone for eBay’s global strategy on the Shopping/Buyer experience and Managed Verticals. During his 15-year tenure at eBay, Mohan has managed product and engineering teams, hyper-focused on the buyer experience, driving traffic and growing the active user base through conversion, engagement and retention, and has also served on the eBay Motors team, where he led engineering and fitment (parts compatibility) to propel eBay as a market leader in auto parts. Mohan earned both bachelor and master degrees in Computer Science from R.V. College of Engineering in Bangalore and, New Jersey Institute of Technology respectively, and holds four patents. A true Raiders football and Warriors basketball fan, Mohan calls Fremont, California home. While not reimagining user experiences at eBay, Mohan enjoys playing basketball with his son, as well as buying and selling toys and electronics with his kids, especially on the eBay app.

Bradford Shellhammer

eBay

Bradford Shellhammer is the GM of eBay New York City and eBay’s Vice President of Buyer Experience, a leading product visionary in the company. He and his teams define the direction, design, and build of eBay's buyer experience including: homepages, item & product pages, browse pages, global header and navigation, content, Interests, My eBay, seller and brand stores, deals platform, merchandising tools, vertical shopping experiences, computer vision shopping experiences, guest experiences, registration and identity experiences, couponing and referral programs, Watch List and saving searches, sellers, and collections. He also sets the vision of eBay’s personalized shopping algorithms and products, and the company’s mobile strategy, while providing creative direction of visual design and curation. He's also the product leader for eBay for Charity, which has raised over $1B for charities around the world. Prior to eBay he was one of Fast Company’s ‘100 Most Creative People in Business’ and was coined the ‘King of Quirk’ by Forbes Magazine and the ‘Eames of E-Commerce’ by Wired. He was the founder of Fab.com, Bezar, and Queerty, was Chief Design Officer at Backcountry.com, and has won 3 Webbys. In his spare time, you can find Shellhammer singing in a rock band.

Harry Temkin

eBay

Harry has over two decades of executive sales, marketing, business and technology leadership experience across both financial information, technology companies and fintech startups. In his current role as Vice President of Seller Experience, Harry is responsible for the technology platform and software that millions of sellers utilize on a daily basis to create, manage, sell and monetize listings. With ultimate responsibility to deliver new and enhanced front-end listing capabilities, analytical and reporting tools, and APIs that allow our sellers to be more efficient, drive conversion, grow their business successfully and profitably, and provide protections they deserve.

Prior to joining eBay, Harry spent a large part of his career with Thomson Reuters, serving in a number of leadership roles including, EVP - Global Head of Eikon Product Management, Equities and EVP - Head of Exchange Traded Instruments. Additionally, Harry also served as Chief Information Officer of DriveWealth, a fintech broker-dealer. Harry has also served as Chief Executive Officer of KnowVera, and served as a member of the Board of Directors with BATS Stock Exchange. When Harry isn’t focusing on all things eBay seller, he enjoys skiing, scuba diving, travelling and working on his 1983 Jeep CJ7 which he bought on eBay.

Favorite eBay Experience:

Finding and purchasing an under dash courtesy lights wiring harness for his CJ7. Only made in 1982 and 1983, a true OOAK item, and only available on eBay. A very satisfying auction winning bid!

Andrea Stairs

eBay

As Head of eBay’s North American Marketing business, Andrea leads all facets of buyer marketing for one of the largest e-commerce players in the region. Andrea also oversees eBay’s Canadian operations as President of eBay Canada Ltd. Prior to her current role, Andrea was GM of eBay Canada & Latin America and was responsible for strategy and operations across more than 40 countries. Andrea has received a BA from McGill University, as well as LLB and MBA degrees from the University of Toronto and sits on a number of boards including Export Development Canada, FinDev Canada, Canada’s National Ballet School, and the Toronto Region Board of Trade. She is also the recipient of the Women’s Executive Network’s Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, in the Corporate Executive category. A native of Montreal, Andrea lives in Toronto with her husband and young son and daughter.

Rebecca Michals

eBay

Rebecca Michals is Director, Seller Community and Engagement for eBay US. She leads all seller engagement and marketing strategy and activities for eBay’s SMB sellers. Rebecca’s team is responsible for connecting with sellers across key channels including seller events, Community, Seller School, plus the eBay for Business social channels and podcast. She is passionate about eBay’s purpose to create economic opportunity and the role eBay plays in helping sellers succeed on the platform. Prior to joining eBay in 2020, Rebecca spent 19 years at Johnson & Johnson in a range of community, social and customer communication roles.

June Seller Check-In

eBay Seller Events Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 1:30 PM (PDT)

About this event

Speakers

Mohan Patt

Bradford Shellhammer

Harry Temkin

Andrea Stairs

Rebecca Michals

Mohan Patt

eBay

Bradford Shellhammer

eBay

Harry Temkin

eBay

Andrea Stairs

eBay

Rebecca Michals

eBay

eBay Seller Events
Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 1:30 PM (PDT)