eBay announced the appointment of Edward W. (Ned) Barnholt to its board of directors. Barnholt was responsible for guiding Agilent through its spin-off from Hewlett-Packard Company in 1999.

"We're very excited that Ned has agreed to join eBay's board," said Meg Whitman, eBay's president and CEO. "He adds tremendous business and technology experience to an already world-class board of directors. Ned will be a great voice as the directors and management chart eBay's future."

Barnholt joined HP in 1966 in the company's former Microwave Division. He was named president and chief executive officer of Agilent Technologies in March 1999 and became chairman of the Board of Directors in November 2002. Barnholt retired from his posts on March 1, 2005.

Barnholt, who was born in 1943 in New York City, received both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is a director of KLA-Tencor Corporation.

Mr. Barnholt fills a vacancy created by an increase in the size of the Board of Directors from nine to ten. eBay's board of directors also includes: Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of the board; Meg Whitman, president and CEO; Fred Anderson, managing director of Elevation Partners; Scott Cook, chairman of the executive committee of Intuit Inc.; Robert Kagle, general partner of Benchmark Capital Partners; Dawn Gould Lepore, CEO and chairman of drugstore.com; Philippe Bourguignon, Chairman of Aegis Media France; Thomas Tierney, founder and chairman of the Bridgespan Group; and Richard T. Schlosberg, III, former President and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

eBay's Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws provide for its Board of Directors to be divided into three classes, with each class having a three-year term. Mr. Barnholt will be a member of the first class of directors, with a term of office expiring at eBay's upcoming annual meeting of stockholders to be held on June 23, 2005, and will stand for election along with the other members of the first class of directors, Fred D. Anderson, Scott D. Cook, and Robert C. Kagle, at the annual meeting. Mr. Barnholt has not yet been named to any Committee of eBay's Board of Directors. eBay expects that its Board of Directors will consider Mr. Barnholt's Committee assignment at the Board of Directors meeting to be held on June 23, 2005.

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