Article: Meg Whitman to Step Down as President and CEO of eBay.

John Donahoe Will Become President and CEO on March 31

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) (www.ebay.com) announced today that Meg Whitman will step down as President and CEO of eBay on March 31, 2008. Whitman will remain on the company's Board of Directors.

Whitman joined eBay in March 1998. At the time, eBay was a U.S.-only, auction-based trading site with 500,000 registered users, just 30 employees, and $4.7 million in revenue. Today, the company has hundreds of millions of users worldwide, more than 15,000 employees and nearly $7.7 billion in revenue. Whitman led eBay to become one of the fastest-growing companies in history. Over the last 10 ...

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