Jeff Skoll

Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC is a Canadian engineer, internet entrepreneur and film producer. He was the first employee and subsequently first president of eBay, eventually using the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist, particularly through the Skoll Foundation, and his media company Participant Media. 

• Jeff Skoll built his fortune as eBay‘s first full-time hire and president in 1995; he left eBay in 2001, three years after its IPO.
• Skoll divides his time between his Skoll Foundation, which funds social entrepreneurs, and film production firm Participant Media.
• The Skoll Foundation and Skoll Global Threats Fund have distributed about $600 million worldwide, aiming to reduce poverty, among other goals.
• In March 2016 his Participant Media won its first best picture Academy Award for the film “Spotlight.”
• Skoll founded millennial-focused cable TV channel Pivot TV in 2013 but shut it down in late 2016.