Jeff Skoll

Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, born on 16 January 1965 in Montreal, is a Canadian engineer, internet entrepreneur, film producer and philanthropist. He graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in 1987, founded two small technology businesses in Toronto, and took an MBA at Stanford in 1995. In 1996 Pierre Omidyar hired him as eBay's first president and first full-time employee, and he wrote the business plan the company followed; he later cashed out part of his holdings, which gave him about two billion dollars. He used that wealth to create the Skoll Foundation, founded the film company Participant, whose productions include An Inconvenient Truth and Spotlight, and started the investment firm Capricorn Investment Group, which he chairs. He was also one of the four founders of Amblin Partners in 2015.