Sam Bright is chief product and experience officer at Upwork (NASDAQ: UPWK), the world's work marketplace, where he leads a 900-person globally distributed team located in 45 countries across product management, design, user experience and research, talent success, customer experience, community, new businesses, payments, risk, trust & safety, and business development. As a C-suite executive with nearly two decades of extensive experience scaling technology teams, businesses and transformational customer experiences, Bright’s career reflects a demonstrated track record of growing multi-billion dollar P&Ls, executing complex domestic and global transactions, and leading large teams through inflection points. Prior to joining Upwork, Bright was the vice president and general manager of verticals at eBay and had P&L responsibility for the company’s North America vertical business units. Bright serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), sits on the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum Advisory Council, was a member of the board of directors at Benetech for six years, and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). He has been named to Savoy Magazine’s “Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America” multiple times, Black Enterprise’s “List of the Most Influential Blacks in Technology,” Staffing Industry Analysts’ “40 Under 40,” and Products That Count’s inaugural Global CPO 20 Awards. Bright holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.A. in management from Taylor University.