In
1997, Wilson was one of eBay's first employees, where he was
responsible for building the organization and technology for the
world's largest and most successful eCommerce site. The architecture,
processes and organizations he established during eBay's startup days
in 1997 carried eBay through its IPO and beyond.
Wilson began
his career at Macy's California, where he developed point of sale and
electronic credit card authorization systems, later becoming the
youngest senior executive in the company's history. He later joined
Chevron, providing management and software support for Chevron's
10,000+ member online user community.
After Chevron, Wilson
was an early employee and key developer of the Mainframe and
Macintosh product at Oracle Corporation. After several years, he
moved on to Neuron Data, where he worked on bringing artificial
intelligence together with modern relational and object-oriented
database
technology. Excited by the emergence of portable
computing, he later worked for eShop (acquired by Microsoft in 1996),
as the Chief Architect and Project Manager and helped create the
world's first online shopping platform.
Wilson has also held
key positions at daVinci Time and Space, developing ITV-based
community, and at The Well, leading the development of its web-based
community product, Well Engaged.