Devin Wenig

Devin Norse Wenig (born 1966)

Early life Devin Norse Wenig was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Carol Wenig and Jeffrey Wenig, a toxicologist, and founder and chief executive of Nastech Pharmaceutical Company of Hauppauge, Long Island.

Wenig earned a bachelor's degree from Union College, and a JD degree from Columbia University School of Law.

Wenig joined as president of eBay's global marketplaces business in September 2011. When Wenig joined eBay, it had 99 million active users. During his time as marketplace chief, this rose to nearly 160 million, by focusing on "m-commerce", shopping on mobile devices. In October 2014, it was announced that once the eBay/PayPal demerger was complete, Wenig would become CEO of eBay, replacing John Donahoe. Wenig took over as CEO in July 2015 after eBay spun off PayPal.

In September 2019, Wenig unexpectedly stepped down from his position of CEO at eBay, amid pressure from activist investors to break the company apart, and was immediately succeeded as interim CEO by Scott Schenkel, eBay's CFO. He received a golden parachute severance package.

In June 2021, he was named to the Salesforce Global Advisory Board.

Cyberstalking incident A cyberstalking and harassment campaign against the owners of the online newsletter ECommerceBytes occurred in 2019. This eventually led to charges against seven members of eBay's global security team. The harassment began after an article was published in ECommerceBytes about eBay's litigation against Amazon.

Wenig texted a communications executive "If you are ever going to take her down... now is the time." A subsequent cyberstalking and harassment campaign against the newsletter's authors involved sending the couple live cockroaches, fly larvae, and a bloody Halloween pig mask. The campaign led to criminal convictions against seven members of eBay's global security team. An internal eBay investigation found that, while Wenig’s communications were inappropriate, there was no evidence that he knew in advance about or authorized the actions that would later become the cyberstalking case.

Wenig was not charged in the case, but was sued civilly by the owners of the newsletter. The suit, filed against eBay and Wenig, was reported by Reuters as settled before the trial in February, 2026. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. eBay's total settlement was over $55 million dollars, with $2 million to be paid by Wenig, with an apology issued by eBay for the executives' conduct.

Recognition In 2019, Wenig was ranked #100 in a Forbes list of America's 100 most innovative leaders. He was ranked eighth in Retail Info Systems' 2017 list of "Retail's 10 Best CEOs".

Personal life On 28 March 1993, Wenig married Cindy Lee Horowitz, a lawyer, and fellow graduate of Columbia University School of Law in a ceremony at the Huntington (Long Island) Jewish Center.