Ecommerce Industry News
Current eBay board member Bob Swan has joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a Growth Operating Partner. Swan served as Chief Financial Officer of eBay for nine years. Swan left eBay after the company […]
Activist investor Starboard Value LP is easing off on its pressure against eBay, which issued a press release today containing a joint statement from the two companies. Last month, Starboard Value had nominated four candidates […]
eBay Interim CEO Scott Schenkel sent an email to all employees on Thursday in response to the action taken by activist investor Starboard Value LP. In it, he asked them to stay focused, acknowledging that […]
eBay responded to a letter its Board of Directors received this morning from activist investor Starboard Value LP pressuring it to hire an outside candidate for its CEO position and add four new members to […]
eBay named two new members to its board of directors, both women, one of them an African American, a year after the company hired its first Chief Diversity Officer. Diana Farrell is Founding President and […]
On May 14th, eBay announced that longtime board member Scott Cook would be appointed to the PayPal board after the split. In a filing with the SEC this week, eBay revealed that Cook “subsequently determined […]
Two eBay shareholders are calling for changes to eBay’s corporate governance. The move raises the question of whether eBay executives have too much control over its board of directors, which is set up to act […]
Despite the fact eBay will be splitting itself in two in a matter of months, it named a new director to its board. Bonnie Hammer, Chairman of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, joined eBay Inc.’s Board of […]
eBay’s announcement on Monday that “Marc Andreessen has decided to resign from the company’s board of directors” appears carefully worded lest anyone think the board had ousted him. The distinction is important since eBay shareholder […]