Featured Alumni

 Rajiv Dutta
President, PayPal

The accomplished Drucker School alum, recently hosted a reception for Drucker School alumni and friends at PayPal Headquarters in San Jose, California. Alumni and students, alike, traveled to the gala event which offered the opportunity to meet and interact with one of Drucker’s most prominent and engaging alums.

During the programs, Dutta told the compelling history of the emergence of eBay and PayPal and recounted his involvement and work in building PayPal’s status as the global standard for digital payments. He reported that today, they have more users than all the credit cards of the world combined.

Mr. Dutta received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with honors from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University in India, and a Master of Business Administration from the Drucker School of Management in 1982.

Prior to joining PayPal, Mr. Dutta was President of Skype, eBay's online voice communications business. Skype is the world's fastest-growing Internet communication company, allowing unlimited free voice, video and instant messaging communication between Skype users. With over 136 million registered users, Skype is available in 27 languages and is used in almost every country around the world.
 
Mr. Dutta joined Skype from eBay, where he was Chief Financial Officer. During his tenure as CFO, eBay's market capitalization increased six-fold, revenue grew from $750 million to $4.5 billion, and the employee base grew from just under 2,000 to nearly 12,000 employees. Mr. Dutta also served as Chief Strategy Officer for the company and led the New Ventures Group, which oversaw eBay's entry into the global classifieds market and the acquisition of Shopping.com. Mr. Dutta joined eBay in 1998.