Gautam Thakar
Chief Executive Officer

As CEO of Shopping.com, Gautam Thakar oversees the overall direction and strategy, while managing day-to-day operations for one of the leading comparison shopping destinations on the web.

Gautam joined Shopping.com in 2008 and transitioned to his current role as CEO in March of 2011. Prior to this role, Gautam was the Global Head of Business for Shopping.com, responsible for all business operations in the company's global portfolio in the US, Germany, UK, France and Australia across the comparison shopping and advertising network businesses.

He is a long time ecommerce veteran with startup, general managerial and international experience. He was previously Senior Director of International Marketing at eBay where he led the Global Marketing Leadership team across Europe and Asia. Prior to this, Gautam was the Country Manager of eBay in India and member of the Asia Pacific Leadership team. He was responsible for the overall strategy and business results of the Marketplace. He joined eBay upon the acquisition of baazee.com, where as CMO and member of the early management team he was responsible for Marketing, Category Management, Product and Business Development at various stages.

Prior to his time at eBay, Gautam served as the regional brand manager for detergents at Procter & Gamble in Asia. Gautam spent close to 5 years with P&G helping launch and build brands such as Tide, Ariel, Gain & Ezee. Gautam was also a member of the Market Development Leadership Team for the Laundry and Health Care business in India and the Philippines.

Gautam holds a Master in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and a Graduate degree in Commerce from Sydenham College, Bombay University.

Hendrik Krampe
Chief Financial Officer

Hendrik is responsible for monitoring and planning the financial performance of Shopping.com and ensures accuracy and compliance of financial reporting.

Hendrik joined Shopping.com in January 2011 after spending 6 years at eBay Germany in various finance roles. During his time with eBay Germany Hendrik was the CFO of mobile.de, a cars classifieds site acquired by eBay in 2004, where he led all financial aspects of mobile.de’s integration into eBay Inc. and assumed the role of CFO for the eBay.de business unit.

Before joining eBay, Hendrik worked as CFO for small to medium size companies mainly in the field of Healthcare & Biotech in Germany with a focus on M&A and international expansion.

Hendrik holds a Master Degree from the Koblenz School of Management (WHU) and has studied at USC in Los Angeles and ESC Reims in France.

Orit Ziv
Senior Director of Human Resources

As the Senior Director of Human Resources at Shopping.com, Orit Ziv leads the global HR team for Shopping.com where her responsibilities include coaching and mentoring the leadership team, ensuring consistency throughout all HR policies, procedures and practices between the Shopping.com and eBay organizations. She also oversees the creation and implementation of appropriate development programs for personnel at all levels in the organization.

Orit joined the company in March 2007 from Shopping.com Israel, where she spent 2 years as a Senior Human Resources Manager, leading the local HR team and supporting the Product Catalog Services operation.

Prior to Shopping.com, Orit worked at Be'Gisha Shona as a Human Resources Consultant.

Orit received a Master's degree in Counseling-Occupational Psychology from Tel Aviv University and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Haifa University.

Bridget Davies
Managing Director, US Business

As Managing Director of the US Business, Bridget Davies leads all business operations in the US market including Merchant Services, Display Advertising, Internet Marketing and our Distributed Commerce Publisher Network.

Bridget is an e-commerce and internet marketing veteran. She joined DealTime in 2000 managing and later leading the Strategic Publishers team where she grew the division from its infancy into a multi-million dollar business while expanding a merchant's product reach everywhere consumers were shopping online. She took ownership of a new business and ran the Search Engine Marketing program where she doubled the business in 3 short years. She expanded her responsibilities in 2009, heading up the Global Internet Marketing and Advertising teams and later in the year began leading the US Merchant Services organization. With a strong track record of consistent results, Bridget took over management of the US Business in July of 2010.

Bridget holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.