Jeffrey Housenbold

Jeffrey Housenbold is President and CEO of Shutterfly, Inc., an Internet–based social expression and personal publishing service. The company provides a full range of products and services to enable consumers to manage their digital photographs.

Housenbold has a successful track record of building online consumer franchises by combining commerce and community. In June 2006, he received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Retail and Consumer Products category for the Northern California region.

Previously, Housenbold was Vice President of Business Development and Internet Marketing at eBay, where he managed customer acquisition and retention. At eBay, he also held positions as Vice President and General Manager of its Business–to–Consumer Group and Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions. Formerly, he held senior management positions with AltaVista, including Vice President and General Manager, and was the Chief Operating Officer of Raging Bull, the community finance portal. He also served as Vice President of Corporate Development at WinStar Communications and as Manager and Founder of Accenture’s Media & Entertainment Strategy Group.

Housenbold earned his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Dean’s Fellow; and his undergraduate degrees, with high honors in economics and business administration, from Carnegie Mellon University where he was a Presidential Scholar.

Housenbold is the co-author of "The Shutterfly Guide to Great Digital Photos", an instructional book published by McGraw-Hill on the essentials of digital photography and managing images. He is an avid photographer with his Canon 30D.

External links

* [http://shutterfly.com Shutterfly website]