Ramkumar Narayanan is the General Manager, eBay Product Development Centre, India where he focuses on data driven product innovation to support eBay businesses across multiple markets.

The eBay Product Development Centre plays a strategic role in eBay’s global product innovation, research and development. The Center is responsible for end-to-end Thought Leadership and Technology Leadership for variety of domains, products, and technologies of eBay Platform that drive the key business metrics and serve millions of customers. The product eco system includes Product Strategy and Management, Platform and Application Development, Quality Engineering, Engineering Systems, Architecture, User Experience and Design, Information Security, Analytics, Infrastructure and Operations etc. In addition to the Global product development, the center partners with eBay India and APAC business as the technology and local innovation arm. The eBay Product Development Centre is located in Bengaluru, India.

Prior to joining eBay India in November 2012, Ramkumar Narayanan was the Vice President of Global Product Management in Yahoo! where he was accountable for leading product strategy and management across its Software Development Center in Bangalore. He has also led a number of global product teams including Search, Commerce, Advertising, Small Business and Emerging Markets with primary focus on India & Middle East. Before working with Yahoo!, Ramkumar Narayanan was associated with Microsoft in both US and India and served in many capacities.

Mr. Narayanan holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering & MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.