Speakers

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  Rebecca Michals

  eBay

  Director, Seller Community and Engagement

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  Andrea Stairs

  eBay

  VP, CMO & Seller Community, North America

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  Nicole Colombo

  eBay

  GM of Collectibles & Trading Cards

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  Steve Halupka

  eBay

  Senior Category Manager, Collectibles & Toys

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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. 

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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. 

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Nicole Colombo

eBay

Nicole oversees the Collectibles and Trading Cards categories at eBay. Nicole has also worked on the Fashion vertical at eBay as the Director of Clothing, Shoes, Accessories, Handbags, Jewelry, Watches, Beauty and Health. Before joining eBay over five years ago, Nicole was the head Merchandiser at Banana Republic FactoryStore, a Division of Gap Inc. Nicole has an extensive merchandising and retail background and has worked for several successful brands including Old Navy, Levi Strauss & Co and Pottery Barn. Nicole also holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS from the University of Southern California. When she’s not working, Nicole spends time at her home in Marin County, California with her two little boys, Parker and Liam.

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Steve Halupka

eBay

Steve is the Senior Category Manager for Collectibles & Toys for eBay. He oversees a variety businesses that range from FUNKO Pops! to Coins and everything in between. He has been working at eBay in a Category Management role since October of 2014, primarily focusing on Bullion, Coins and Paper Money, and Stamps space. In that time, Steve was able to grow these businesses through partnerships with top sellers, leveraging all of the tools and tactics that eBay has at it's disposal. In 2019, he added Sports Memorabilia to his management profile, and more recently Collectibles and Toys. Prior to coming to eBay, Steve worked for APMEX, the largest precious metals retailer in the country, on their eBay presence and other marketing and merchandising initiatives.Steve was born and raised in New Jersey, where he resides today.