PayPal Holdings Inc. on Tuesday tapped Sri Shivananda to replace James Barrese as its chief technology officer.

PayPal said Mr. Barrese is stepping down to take time off. Mr. Shivananda will also become senior vice president, effective April 1.

Shares fell 1.3% to $33.18 a share in premarket trading.

Mr. Shivananda led eBay Inc.'s platform and infrastructure team before it split off the PayPal business last year. He has since been a vice president at PayPal in charge of core technologies.

PayPal said it would also move its payments and identity teams into its product and engineering division.

Write to Chelsey Dulaney at Chelsey.Dulaney@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

February 09, 2016 09:35 ET (14:35 GMT)

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