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Over the last couple of days, Scot Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor and author of the eBay Strategies blog, has been discussing the number of executives that have recently left eBay. Scot calls it the Brain Drain.

Consider this mass exit with 10 million less visitors a day and the virtual doubling of seller fees over the last two years and I think it adds up to trouble at eBay.

Here is Scot's listing of eBay's Brain Drain:

• Shira Levine - Was an awesome category manager, then ran Powerseller program - now at Prosper.
• Sean Crotty (eBay blogger) - Moved to art.com to run their affiliate program
• Jeff Housenbold (used to run eBay API team and then marketing) now is CEO of shutterfly.com
• Doug Galen - Jeff brought him onboard over at shutterfly too.
• Jeff McManus - Jeff wins the "most changes award". Originally I met him as part of the Microsoft development community, then he was a Senior Manager with eBay's developer program.  One week we had a meeting with Yahoo! to meet their new director of their developer program and BOOM, there was Jeff. (At the same visit we saw no fewer than five ebay people we hadn't known were at Y! now)
• Lynn Reedy - profiled in this Forbes article, Lynn ran a big chunk of engineering/product management throughout her tenure.  Rumor has it she was very corporate (the trains run with X seats and thats how we do things - period!) and when Donahue came in they didn't get along to say the least.
• Dr. Ralph Werner (eBay Germany-super sharp guy with PHD in physics) after running corp dev, took over Mobile.de.  eBay then put some BCS consultant-guy in charge and Ralph is no longer with the company.

and

• Tony Pecora - Was senior BD at eBay, left to run BD for become.com. 
  
• Henry Vogel - Ran internet marketing at eBay, left to be senior exec at Quigo.
• Marty Abbott - Ran eBay IT/ops from 99 on.  Along with Vogel also senior exec at Quigo.  Oddly enough he's (and look there's Lynn, back from the dead) still on some eBay management pages like this.
• Tom Keeven - Backfilled Marty and left in May06.
• Marty Cagan - Is a very big shot in the product management world.  He has evidently left eBay and started his own PM consultancy (this was news to me!)
• Chuck Geiger - Was CTO of Paypal and prior to that a senior engineering guy at eBay - now working with Marty on that gig.