Nazila Alasti

Global Head of Product Marketing, eBay

314: Building a Company and the Role of Mobile

Nazila Alasti is currently the Global Head of Product Marketing at eBay. In addition, Ms. Alasti is the Founder of Jooners.com - an easy-to-use volunteer management system designed to eliminate the tedious back-and-forth inherent in organizing group activities and events. Prior, Ms. Alasti spent 15 years in engineering, product management and business development roles in companies such as Apple and Javasoft. She has founded and participated in the successful exits of two companies (Collation/IBM and eCircles/UnitedOnline) and spent a number of formative years as an associate at Glenwood Management, an early-stage venture fund.

A mother of two daughters, Ms. Alasti is a passionate advocate of increasing women's power in the workplace by finding creative solutions. She is a docent at the SFMOMA and speaks four languages fluently. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.