eBay announced a management change to eBay Marketplaces this afternoon. Lorrie Norrington, president of eBay Marketplaces, will be leaving the company for personal family reasons. While the company conducts an external search for her successor, the global Marketplaces management team will report to eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe.
“Lorrie has led eBay Marketplaces through significant fundamental change as we drive a multiyear turnaround strategy to enhance the shopping experience for buyers and sellers and evolve eBay as a global ecommerce and mobile commerce leader,” said eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe. “For personal family reasons, Lorrie made a decision to do what’s best for eBay and for her family, and I respect that. I wish her the very best and thank her for many contributions to our company and our nearly 92 million active eBay users.”
Lorrie has led eBay Marketplaces since July 2008 and has been with the company since 2005. I have had the opportunity and very great pleasure of working with Lorrie a lot over the past 3 years and I will be sad to say goodbye but wish her all the best.
In addition to announcing this management change, the company said it expects its third quarter 2010 results to be near the high end of the guidance provided on July 21. The company expects to report third quarter 2010 results on October 20. I plan on live-blogging our quarterly earnings call as usual.
-RBH
