eBay appointed Bill Ford, Chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company, to its board of directors. Ford's term on the board begins immediately. Ford was named CEO of Ford Motor Company on October 30, 2001, and has been a member of the company's board since 1988. He also serves as chairman of the board's Environmental and Public Policy Committee and as a member of the Finance Committee.
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; Richard T. Schlosberg, III, former President and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; and Ned Barnholt, former Chairman, President and CEO of Agilent Technologies.
