John Donahoe

Who is John Donahoe?

John Donahoe II is president and CEO of eBay Inc..

In March 2005 he was hired as president of eBay Marketplaces. His role was to focus on eBay's core business, which accounts for a large percentage of the company's revenues. He made more than forty acquisitions, including Shopping.com and StubHub, and the classifieds sites Gumtree and LoQUo, and most recently, Shutl. In his current role Mr. Donahoe oversees eBay's two modules, eBay Marketplaces, and PayPal.

Before joining eBay he worked for Bain & Company for 20 years, starting as an associate consultant and becoming the firm's president and CEO in 1999.

In Mr. Donahoe's first stint in the working world, after his senior year of high school, a friend’s dad asked him to work at his Schlitz beer distribution company. “You’ll make good money,” he said. It was a union job and the first requirement was that he join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

He serves on the Boards of Directors of both eBay Inc. and Intel Corp.

He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Dartmouth and received an MBA from the Stanford Business School.