Scott F. Schenkel is an American business executive. He was the interim CEO of

eBay eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995 and became ...

from September 2019 through April 2020. Prior to that, he was eBay's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Early life

Schenkel earned a bachelor's degree in finance from

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...

Career

After university, Schenkel joined

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable energ ...

's (GE) financial management program, and worked in finance for GE for over 16 years, rising to CFO of GE Healthcare Clinical Systems. Schenkel joined eBay from GE in 2007. Before becoming CFO of

, Schenkel had been senior vice president and CFO of eBay Marketplaces for over six years. On 25 September 2019, it was announced that Devin Wenig would be stepping down as ebay's CEO, and that Schenkel, senior vice president and chief financial officer since 2015, had been appointed as the interim CEO. He was eventually replaced by

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Personal life

Schenkel is a keen baseball fan and enjoys skiing, mountain biking, and golf.

References

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