Sten Tamkivi

General Manager, eCommerce
General Manager, Estonia

Sten Tamkivi is the General Manager of Skype’s eCommerce activities, responsible for developing next-generation commerce around Skype’s core communication offering. SkypeFind global business listings, SkypePrime premium voice & video services and SkypeCasts voice communities are examples of projects his team is working on. Based in Tallinn, Sten also looks after Skype Estonia as local GM.

Sten joined Skype in 2005 and has held executive positions as the Head of Operations, overseeing our sites and servers, as well as internal IT, security, and productivity tools and more recently managing the engineering for Skype Devices. Prior to Skype, Sten was business development director at Helmes, a Tallinn-based software development and IT-consulting company where his client roster included major regional financial institutions, telecoms and utilities.

Having begun his career as a programmer and web designer, Sten co-founded and managed Halo Interactive DDB Estonia, the country’s first full service digital media agency. It was at Halo, while working on a web portal project, that he first met the future founders and core engineers of Skype.

Sten has studied Public Relations and Communication at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He lives in Tallinn where he cooks gourmet meals for his wife and son.