What Happened?
San Jose, CA-based PayPal Promoted Sri Shivananda as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online, via a mobile device and in store. The service gives people simpler ways to send money without sharing financial information, and with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With 132 million active accounts in 203 markets and 26 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global commerce, processing more than 7.7 million payments every day. Because PayPal helps people transact anytime, anywhere and in any way, the company is a driving force behind the growth of mobile commerce and expects to process $20 billion in mobile payments in 2013. PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and its international headquarters is located in Singapore.
About the Person
During his nearly 15-year tenure at the company, Sri Shivananda led eBay`s Global Platform and Infrastructure (GPI) team that powered both the eBay Inc. and PayPal businesses. After successfully guiding his team through separation, Sri joined PayPal as VP of GPI reporting to Barrese. In this role, Sri was responsible for all core technologies covering PayPal`s data centers, internal private cloud, online and offline data infrastructure, internal developer frameworks and tools, and various platform services.
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