# Marcus Shen

> Marcus Shen is the CEO and Board Member of B-Stock, the world's largest B2B marketplace for excess merchandise, helping retailers like Walmart, Amazon, and Costco efficiently recover value from returned and surplus inventory. A former Yahoo! VP of Corporate Development and KKR advisor, Shen joined B-Stock as CFO in 2019, rose to COO, and took the CEO role in March 2022. Under his leadership, B-Stock has become a defining force in the recommerce economy, selling 160 million units annually and keeping nearly 300,000 tons of inventory out of landfills.

- **Role:** CEO & Board Member at B-Stock
- **Organizations:** B-Stock, KKR & Co (Advisor), Yahoo! Inc., Content Analytics, Statalog, Blue Ridge Capital, Houlihan Lokey, CIBC Oppenheimer
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, MBA in Finance, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
- **Known for:** Built B-Stock into the world's largest B2B marketplace for excess merchandise, Led B-Stock's platform to sell 160 million units annually, keeping ~300,000 tons of inventory out of landfills, As CFO at Content Analytics, grew ARR by 400%

## Career timeline

- **1997** — Senior Associate at Houlihan Lokey
- **2000-2001** — Senior Associate, Technology Investment Banking at CIBC Oppenheimer
- **2001-2003** — VP Finance at Philips Research Corp
- **2003-2004** — Investment Consultant at Blue Ridge Capital
- **2005-2008** — Director, Corporate Development at Yahoo! Inc. - worked on deals including Alibaba, Yahoo! Japan, Flickr
- **2009-2011** — Founded Statalog
- **2011-2012** — VP, Corporate Development & Corporate Finance at Yahoo! Inc.; Board Director at Yahoo!7 Australia
- **2013-2019** — Advisor at KKR & Co, working with Technology and Media investment teams
- **2017-2019** — CFO & Head of Operations at Content Analytics, Inc. - grew ARR by 400%
- **2019** — Joined B-Stock as CFO
- **2019-2021** — Chief Operating Officer at B-Stock
- **2022** — Appointed CEO & Board Member of B-Stock (March 24, 2022), succeeding founder Howard Rosenberg

## Achievements

- Built B-Stock into the world's largest B2B marketplace for excess merchandise
- Led B-Stock's platform to sell 160 million units annually, keeping ~300,000 tons of inventory out of landfills
- As CFO at Content Analytics, grew ARR by 400%
- At Yahoo! Corporate Development, led or contributed to landmark deals including Alibaba partnership, Flickr acquisition, Yahoo! Japan, Interclick, Hortonworks, and Dialpad
- Secured relationships with top 10 U.S. retailers including Walmart, Amazon, GameStop, and Costco as B-Stock clients
- Elevated B-Stock recommerce platform to serve nearly 300,000 business buyers globally
- Featured speaker at NRF 2026 discussing AI's role in reshaping B2B resale and inventory pricing

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Appeared on Retail TouchPoints' Retail Remix podcast live from NRF 2026, discussing AI's role in B2B resale and brand control in secondary markets.
- **2026-01** — B-Stock released the State of B2B Recommerce 2026 report featuring CEO perspective on applying technology to resale; platform sold 160M units that year.
- **2025-01** — B-Stock reported record-breaking $890 billion in merchandise returned by retailers in 2024, underscoring the scale of the recommerce opportunity.

## Links

- Website: https://bstock.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mjshen
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/shenm
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bstocksolutions

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Last updated: 2026-05-16