Christopher Payne

Current

• Vice President at eBay

Past

• Founder and CEO at Positronic, Inc.
• Corporate Vice President at Microsoft
• VP at Amazon

• Product Unit Manager at Microsoft

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Education

• Dartmouth College

Connections

191 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Christopher Payne’s Experience

• Vice President

  eBay

  (Public Company; ebay; Internet industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

• Founder and CEO

  Positronic, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  Positronic is a software startup located in Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, WA working on machine learning and data mining.
  
  Our website is Positronic.net.
  
  Positronic was acquired by eBay in December 2008.

• Corporate Vice President

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)

  July 2001 — March 2007 (5 years 9 months)

• VP

  Amazon

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; amzn; Internet industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years )

  Helped launch Amazon's efforts into Video, Electronics, Wireless, PCs and Software. Had P&L responsibility throughout my tenure at Amazon.

• Product Unit Manager

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)

  July 1990 — March 1998 (7 years 9 months)

  In the early part of the 1990's, I helped to market and plan the first four versions of Microsoft Access.
  
  In the mid 90s I joined the newly formed MSN division to help start Microsoft's online efforts. My last job on this first tour was heading up the Microsoft Investor project. This later was renamed to MSN Money after I left.