2011 Speaker List

As eBay's vice president of architecture, technology product management and the developer program, Neal Sample brings nearly 20 years of passion for platform operations and data challenges to the world's largest online marketplace. Neal oversees strategy for the company’s platform architecture, managing the design and delivery of eBay’s platform efforts and further integrating eBay’s range of components – including eBay mobile, Open eBay developer program, cloud computing and social commerce – into the eBay.com platform infrastructure. He also leads the teams that deliver new and exciting technology product functionality to eBay’s tens of millions of customers, and who build opportunities for the developer community to monetize their applications through Open eBay. Neal joined eBay from Yahoo!, where he most recently was vice president of Yahoo’s open, social and participation (YOS) platforms. Sample holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of Wyoming, and a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University.