PayPal on App Store displayed on a phone screen and PayPal logo displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on January 2, 2023.
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PayPal‘s new CEO will be Alex Chriss, the executive who runs the Small Business and Self-Employed group for Intuit, members of PayPal’s board announced Monday.
Chriss will take over for PayPal’s long time CEO Dan Schulman beginning Sept. 27th. Schulman had previously announced a plan to step down from the role by the end of the year. He will remain a director at the company until May 2024.
Shares of PayPal were up around 2% in premarket trading Monday.
PayPal’s board said Chriss was chosen for the role out of a pool of nine candidates. The selection process began back in February. The board members said they were impressed by Chriss’ leadership at Intuit, particularly as he steered the company through its $12 billion acquisition of the marketing platform Mailchimp.
Members of the board also met with more than 20 investors, including activist investor Elliott Management, while conducting the search for the new CEO. Last summer, Elliott Management accumulated an undisclosed stake in PayPal. The board members said the firm had no role in the search.
Schulman became PayPal’s CEO after the split from eBay in 2015, and he notified the company of his decision to retire at the end of December.
“I’m proud of what we have accomplished at PayPal and of the incredibly talented and committed people I work with every day,” Schulman said in a statement announcing his decision. “Together, we have reimagined financial services and e-commerce, and worked to improve the financial health of our customers.”
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