Bob, who joined eBay in 2006, was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award for a career that has included important financial leadership roles at eBay Inc., Electronic Data Systems and TRW, following a career start with General Electric. During his tenure at eBay, Bob has been instrumental in helping lead the company from approximately $5 billion in revenue in 2005 to one that generated over $16 billion in annual revenue in 2013. He oversaw an active M&A period where eBay acquired complementary businesses such as StubHub, Bill Me Later and GSI Commerce.
In addition to growing the company, Bob has helped to build teams and community. eBay is recognized for its finance employee training and development under Bob, providing a breadth of experience as future CFOs. In the past two years, 20 ex-eBay finance people have taken CFO positions in other companies. eBay appeared on Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” rankings and the eBay Foundation is the first corporate philanthropic effort to be endowed with pre-IPO stock and has given more than $20 million in support of promoting economic opportunity.
Bob was recently honored as the 2013 CFO of the Year (Public Company, over 500 million dollars category) from the Silicon Valley Business Journal. In 2012, Swan helped contribute to the company’s #2 rank on Yahoo’s list of top finance companies for proving that it is a balanced e-commerce and payments leader, enriching shareholders with prudent capital usage and pushing innovation in mobile commerce. He was also ranked #40 on ExecRank’s “Top CFOs.”
