Josh Silverman

President

As president of Skype, Josh Silverman oversees the company’s direction and strategy and is ultimately responsible for its performance.

An experienced entrepreneur, Josh has helped build several startups to become world-class brands and companies. He joined Skype from Shopping.com, where he served as CEO following eBay’s acquisition of the recently-listed company. Prior to that, he launched eBay’s European online classifieds business, and built it into the pan-European leader through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. Under his direct management, Marktplaats.nl (the leading Dutch eCommerce business) grew traffic, revenues and profits more than five-fold in a period of three years.

Josh was co-founder and CEO of Evite, the leading social event planning site on the Web, which he led until its sale to Ticketmaster/Citysearch (now IAC) in 2001. He has also held management positions at ADAC Labs, was a Senior Consultant at Booz* Allen & Hamilton and started his career on the staff of U.S. Senator Bill Bradley.

He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and holds a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and elected Co-President of his class.