Google's e-commerce exec leaves

Google e-commerce executive Stephanie Tilenius has left to join venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Bloomberg writes.

Tilenius will be an executive-in-residence working closely with Mary Meeker on the Digital Growth Fund, Kleiner Perkins said in an e-mailed statement.

Niki Fenwick, a spokeswoman for Mountain View, California-based Google, confirmed the departure. “Stephanie is a very talented executive, and she will be a great addition to the KPCB team,” Fenwick said.

“The pace of innovation is so unprecedented, especially in social and mobile,” All Things D quotes Tilenius as saying. “I wanted the ability to help scale a few start-ups, instead of building products in a large company.”

Tilenius has much experience in both arenas, having co-founded and led PlanetRx.com in Web 1.0, as well as working at software start-up Firefly, AOL and Intel before that. She holds a BA and MA from Brandeis University and an MBA from Harvard.

Tilenius joined eBay in 2001 and worked across a wide variety of its businesses, including running the merchant service group of its powerful PayPal payments unit and also on its key Marketplace offering.