Team
Howard Rosenberg, CEO - Howard founded B-Stock Solutions in 2008 after working at eBay for over 6 years. At eBay, he was most recently General Manager of eBay’s enterprise B2B business, known as the Private Marketplace group, which he launched in mid-2004. Howard has helped a variety of enterprise customers liquidate nearly $1 billion in excess inventory in bulk lot, online auctions. His experience includes launching dozens of marketplaces for a wide variety of customers and working with hundreds of companies selling through eBay’s B2B Reseller Marketplace. Howard spent 4 years on the Advisory Board of the Reverse Logistics Association and has been a frequent speaker on techniques to optimize liquidation recovery at the annual RLA conference.
Prior to launching the Private Marketplace business, he was an early member of the team that built eBay Motors where he focused on business development. Prior to joining eBay, Howard was founder and CEO of a web-based, user generated, online video service offering its members access to a library of independent films streaming on-demand. He raised $3 million of venture funding and ran this company for 18 months before selling it to Hollywood Media (NASDAQ: “HOLL”). Prior to that, he was a venture capitalist with Rosewood Capital investing in branded product manufacturers, business services, retail, restaurants, and e-commerce companies. He was involved in the investment of approximately $70 million in consumer companies. Prior to joining Rosewood, Howard spent 2 years at the Blackstone Group in New York. He holds dual degrees with honors in Economics from The University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Bill Cornell, VP Engineering - Bill is a co-founder of B-Stock Solutions. He likes to make technology bend to his will and is often heard to say "___ cannot defeat me!". That long list of victims now includes all things Microsoft, open source languages, databases, JavaScript, CSS and HTML. He enjoys nothing more than to find a problem, interrogate it, then render it harmless forever.
Bill started life as a support engineer with IDX (later acquired by GE). He was involved early on with Windows development, then moved on to one of the first healthcare web apps. He joined FairMarket in 1998 as one of its first 10 employees, hired and managed most of their development team, attended their NASDAQ IPO in 2000, then eventually helped sell the company to eBay in 2003. He did stints at eBay and PayPal as a director of product development, then started BStock with Howard.
Bill was an English Lit. major at Haverford College. He gets sentimental about those days, so we don't bring it up much.
Dave Gershon, Director of Professional Services - Dave oversees all services B-Stock Solutions delivers to customers, including marketplace strategy, implementation, and on-going initiatives that drive results. Dave has over ten years of experience building and growing successful channel and marketing programs with large brands.
Before joining B-Stock Solutions, Dave held several positions at eBay Inc, including managing the Private Marketplaces professional services team, creating and growing marketplaces for Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, HP, Circuit City, The Government of Mexico, Stub Hub and many others. As part of the Strategic Partnerships and Disruptive Innovation teams at eBay, Dave also managed branding and marketing programs with eBay partners such as Intel, Toyota, Purina, Kellogg’s, Equifax, Washington Mutual and many others.
Prior to joining eBay, Dave was an early employee of FairMarket, Inc., a hosted dynamic pricing service provider.