COMPANY

Internet auction company, founded 1995 by Pierre M. Omidyar. It acquired PayPal in 2002, afterwards abandoning its own Billpoint system. Also owns Skype, Rent.com, Shopping.com, and the on-line classified sites Kijiji, Gumtree.com, LoQUo.com, Intoko, and 25% of Craigslist.

Official Website:
http://www.ebay.com/

Industry:
Retail

Ticker:
NASDAQ:EBAY

Corporate headquarters:
San Jose, CA

Sales:
$2.1B (2003)

Employees:
6200 (2003)

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Donahoe	Business	c. 1960		CEO-Elect of eBay
Rajiv Dutta	Business	c. 1962		President of PayPal
Pierre M. Omidyar	Business	21-Jun-1967		Founder of eBay
Meg Whitman	Business	04-Aug-1956		CEO of eBay

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Fred D. Anderson	Business	c. 1945		CFO of Apple, 1996-2004
Edward W. Barnholt	Business	1943		CEO of Agilent Technologies, 1999-2005
Philippe Bourguignon	Business	1948		Revolution Resorts
Scott Cook	Business	c. 1952		Co-Founder of Intuit
John Donahoe	Business	c. 1960		CEO-Elect of eBay
Rajiv Dutta	Business	c. 1962		President of PayPal
William Clay Ford, Jr.	Business	3-May-1957		CEO of Ford, 2001-06
Robert C. Kagle	Business	c. 1956		Benchmark Capital
Dawn G. Lepore	Business	c. 1955		CEO of Drugstore.com
David M. Moffett	Business	c. 1952		CFO of US Bancorp, 2001-07
Pierre M. Omidyar	Business	21-Jun-1967		Founder of eBay
Richard T. Schlosberg III	Publisher	c. 1943		Publisher of LA Times, 1994-97
Thomas J. Tierney	Business	c. 1954		CEO of Bain & Company, 1992-2000
Meg Whitman	Business	04-Aug-1956		CEO of eBay

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