Marie Oh Huber is an experienced public and private company independent director and former chief legal officer at eBay, a Fortune 500 global ecommerce company with in-house payments/fintech and ads platforms, and Agilent Technologies, a Fortune 500 global life sciences/healthcare company offering scientific instruments, software and services.
Through her tech global C-suite roles, as well as her board service at Portland General Electric (energy), Adevinta (Europe digital classifieds) and major non-profits, Marie brings extensive experience relevant to complex global transactions and orgs:
- Global M&A for Growth and Transformation: M&A, CVC and investment committees; leadership role in numerous public and private company M&A (including Agilent’s IPO and spin-off - then largest in Silicon Valley, $2 billion acquisition of Dako that was a major step in transforming into a life sciences company, $5 billion spin-off of Keysight Technologies; eBay’s spinoff of PayPal, sale of StubHub for $4 billion, divestiture of its Classifieds business to Adevinta for $9 billion, and sale and exchange of shares of Adevinta as part of the $13 billion take-private transaction led by Permira and Blackstone; divestiture of an 80% stake in its Korea business, and numerous other transactions, including Motors.co.UK, SneakerCon, TcG Player and Goldin Auctions.
- Digital Transformations: Enabled growth into new product and geo markets by strategic advising and shepherding global digital platforms in more than 100 markets through major regulatory, legislative and geopolitical changes affecting products, money and customer flows (Digital Services Act); consumer protection, payment systems regulations, tax, trade and tariffs. Business transformation and cost restructuring; geo-political scenario planning.
- Regulatory and Risk Management: Supported the creation of the eBay Board of Directors Risk Committee. Led legal and compliance functions across global business platforms within regulated businesses; enterprise risk management review and analysis, data protection and privacy, cybersecurity breach processes, as well as breach response and remediation; board service on audit and risk committees.
- Board and CEO Succession; Shareholder Activism: Guided Board/CEO to resolution of shareholder activism seeking replacement of 1/3 of the Board and multiple rounds of activist approaches. Led and partnered with the Board as consistent C-suite member through three CEO changes and significant board refreshment.
She is a Fellow of the Stanford Rock Center on Corporate Governance, a Lecturer at Stanford Law and Yale Law (governance/leadership), spoke on AI at the NACD Summit, Berkeley Governance Forum, Columbia Millstein Center and on leadership at Harvard, LSE, Wharton, and Yale. Marie contributed to a Stanford AI course for execs and advises a health/beauty/wellness fund investing in Korea, Japan and the U.S. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and Extraordinary Women on Boards. Her professional recognitions include selection as a 2024 Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel, 2024 100 AAPI Board Members Making a Difference, 2024 DirectWomen Distinguished Alumna Award, Burton Awards Legends in the Law 2019 and FT Global General Counsel 2019.
Marie earned her B.A. from Yale University and J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and was a General Course Student at the London School of Economics. She enjoys cycling, running and learning Korean and golf.