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Quote:EBay COO's profit per share shrinks

EBay Chief Operating Officer Maynard Webb, who has pocketed more than $90 million exercising and selling eBay option shares since joining the company in 1999, will retire from the company in August. In his most recent trade on June 30, he spent $484,688 exercising his option to buy 25,000 shares for $19.39 each, and then sold them for $728,328, or $29.13 each.

The $9.74 per-share profit was one of the lowest Webb has gotten in his trades over the years. In 2004, when he made $20 million exercising and selling eBay shares, his average profit per share was $27.61...

full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryne...109340.htm

Thanks, Mandy! Just sent this to the SB  ;D

Update: Maynard no longer needs our help.  He has joined the board of directors of Salesforce.com

Quote:Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM ), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the appointment of Maynard Webb, former COO of eBay to the company's board of directors, effective September 7, 2006. Mr. Webb has been added to the class of directors whose term will expire at the 2009 annual meeting of stockholders

"I am delighted to welcome Maynard to salesforce.com's board of directors," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. "Maynard is widely recognized as a pioneer in scaling highly available, multi-tenant business services and has more than 20 years of hands-on operational experience, most recently as chief operating officer of eBay. His guidance and counsel will be a critical asset to the salesforce.com board as we build for the future."...

full article: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060908/sff018.html?.v=64

EDIT: Maynard has been busy

Quote:AdMob, a company that sells advertising on mobile devices, said it raised $2 million in its first round of venture funding...

Maynard Webb, a private investor and former Ebay executive, also took a seat on the board...

full article: http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanf...st=b_ln_hl

Quote:A former executive at online auctioneer eBay has come out of a short-lived retirement to take a job leading Silicon Valley start-up LiveOps, which contracts with companies to handle customer service and sales calls...

Webb was named late Monday as chief executive of LiveOps, a Palo Alto company whose technology routes customer service calls to 9,000 work-from-home agents around the country. He replaces Bill Trenchard, who will continue as chairman of the board.

Webb said he wanted to be part of a fast-growing company, touting LiveOps' potential to fundamentally change the way people work from remote sites...

full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercuryne...284051.htm