Gil Penchina
Encyclopedia
Gil Penchina is an American business manager. He was formerly the CEO of Wikia Inc.
, and the vice president and general manager, international at eBay
.
He attended the Kellogg School of Management
and the University of Massachusetts Amherst
.
Wikia
Wikia is a free web hosting service for wikis . It is normally free of charge for readers and editors, deriving most of its income from advertising, and publishes all user-provided text under copyleft licenses. Wikia hosts several hundred thousand wikis using the open-source wiki software MediaWiki...
, and the vice president and general manager, international at eBay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
.
He attended the Kellogg School of Management
Kellogg School of Management
The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...
and the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...
.
External links
- Gil Penchina speech, Stanford Technology Venture Program Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
- Gil Penchina on Innovation100, Interviewed by World Economic Forum