ContextLogic Appoints Former Google Executive Farhang Kassaei As Chief Technology Officer

Mobile eCommerce platform ContextLogic Inc WISH has appointed Farhang Kassaei to the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer, effective July 12, 2021.
Kassaei will report to Wish Founder and CEO Piotr Szulczewski and will be responsible for Wish's core Marketplace as well as Engineering Product & Infrastructure, Data & Relevancy, Wish Local and Product Procurement.
Before joining Wish, Kassaei served as Senior Director of Software Engineering at Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL GOOG)) Google. Earlier, Kassaei held multiple positions at eBay Inc. EBAY.
“His work on logistics and scaling merchant onboarding at Google are particularly relevant and demonstrative of the type of experience that will have a positive impact on our core business,” said CEO Piotr Szulczewski.
Kassaei holds an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Price action: WISH shares are trading lower by 2.20% at $10.89 on the last check Monday.