Remembering Rajiv Dutta, Veteran of eBay and Elevation

Nick Wingfield — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:11:10 +0000

Rajiv Dutta, a veteran Silicon Valley executive and investor, died Monday morning after battling a recurrence of cancer.

Dutta, 49 years old, was eBay’s chief financial officer during its headiest growth period and later ran its PayPal and Skype divisions. He was most recently a partner at the private equity firm Elevation Partners. Dutta died at a Stanford University hospital after checking into the facility last week.

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eBay: Norrington to Replace Dutta as Marketplaces Prez

Eric Savitz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:03:04 +0000

This afternoon, eBay announced that eBay Marketplaces President Rajiv Dutta, a longtime executive at the company, will retire in October and be replaced by Lorrie Norrington, who has been running eBay Marketplaces Operations.

The move comes on a day when the Street greeted the company’s second-quarter results with some disappointment, apparently due in part to weaker than expected gross merchandise value from the Marketplaces business in the quarter. As noted earlier, gross merchandise volume was $15.68 billion, up eight percent year over year, but down two percent sequentially.

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eBay: Norrington to Replace Dutta as Marketplaces Prez