New VP to focus on third party developers

September 5, 2008

There’s a change in the management responsible for the technology that eBay runs on. Matt Carey, eBay’s Chief Technology Officer since December 2005 is to leave the company to join The Home Depot.

Joining eBay is Mark Cargoes from BEA Systems, who takes on a newly created role as Senior Vice President, Platform. eBay announced at at the developers conference in June that they would open up the eBay platform and allow third party applications to be embedded in Selling Manager. Mark’s role will be to oversee global platform strategy to enable these third party applications to be built and integrated.