You could say it’s the end of an era. The old guard has left the building.
Dan Ciporin left Shopping.com a long time ago. And since then, Josh Silverman and Lorrie Norrington also moved on.
Kamran Pourzanjani left PriceGrabber a long time ago. And since then, Ron LaPierre also moved on.
Farhad Mohit, Chuck Davis, and John Phelps, have all left Shopzilla.
Rob Solomon left Yahoo! Shopping. And now that PriceGrabber has taken over control of Yahoo! Shopping, Greg Hintz is now heading up Listings at Yahoo!
And Purnendu Ojha has retired as President & CEO of NexTag. Not sure if co-founder, Rafael Ortiz has also moved on, but that would make sense. According to this article, Jeffrey Katz, former CEO of Orbitz, took over on March 1st.
There have been many other Presidents, CEOs and key executives involved with Shopping.com, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, Yahoo! Shopping, and NexTag who have come and gone. But as I heard about Rob Solomon moving to Groupon and read about Purnendu retiring, I felt compelled to write something.
Hard to believe that I’m coming up on my 5 year anniversary of launching ComparisonEngines.
