State of Play V: Speakers' Bios

Profile

Michael Wilson has 25 years of experience in the online community and the eCommerce field. Wilson was an early employee of eBay, Inc., where he was responsible for building the organization and technology for the world's largest and most successful eCommerce site. The architecture, processes and organizations he established during eBay's startup days in 1997 carried eBay through its IPO and beyond.

Wilson began his career at Macy's California, where he developed point of sale and electronic credit card authorization systems, later becoming the youngest senior executive in the company's history. He later joined Chevron, providing management and software support for Chevron's 10,000+ member online user community. After Chevron, Wilson was an early employee and key developer of the Mainframe and Macintosh product at Oracle Corporation. After several years, he moved on to Neuron Data, where he worked on bringing artificial intelligence together with modern relational and object-oriented database technology. Excited by the emergence of portable computing, he later worked for eShop (acquired by Microsoft in 1996), as the Chief Architect and Project Manager for its electronic shopping product.

He has also held key positions at DaVinci Time and Space, developing ITV-based community, and at The Well, leading the development of its web-based community product, Well Engaged. Wilson left eBay in 2001, "retiring" to pursue new start-up opportunities, including There.com where he has served on the Board of Directors and held various roles in engineering, engineering management and community commerce, online privacy, and the use of software as a regulator.

Web Presence

There.com