Jeffrey Jordan joined OpenTable in 2007. He
comes from eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), where he was the president of PayPal
and before that general manager of eBay North America. As president of
PayPal, the Web-based payment system owned by eBay, Jeffrey was
responsible for establishing the company as the global standard for
online payments. Under his leadership, PayPal expanded both beyond the
eBay.com marketplace and internationally, resulting in a busine...
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Jeffrey Jordan joined OpenTable in 2007. He
comes from eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), where he was the president of PayPal
and before that general manager of eBay North America. As president of
PayPal, the Web-based payment system owned by eBay, Jeffrey was
responsible for establishing the company as the global standard for
online payments. Under his leadership, PayPal expanded both beyond the
eBay.com marketplace and internationally, resulting in a business that
had 133 million user accounts and $38 billion in payment volume in
2006.
Prior to PayPal, Jeffrey served as senior vice president and general
manager for eBay North America for five years. In that role, he helped
build eBay into the Internet’s leading commerce brand and led the
successful acquisitions of PayPal and Half.com. From September 1998 to
September 1999, Jeffrey served as chief financial officer for Hollywood
Entertainment Corporation, a video rental company, and president of its
subsidiary, Reel.com. Previously, Jeffrey served in various capacities
at The Walt Disney Corporation for eight years, most recently as senior
vice president and chief financial officer of The Disney Store
Worldwide. Before that, he worked for The Boston Consulting Group.
Jeffrey holds an M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of
Business and a B.A. from Amherst College. He put himself through school
working as a chef at Joe Theismann’s Restaurant in Northern Virginia
and at Restaurant LaTerrasse and The White Dog Café in Philadelphia. He
also serves on the Board of Directors of OpenTable.
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