John Joseph Donahoe II (born April 30, 1960)[1] is an American businessman who is the president of ServiceNow. Early in his career he worked for Bain & Company, becoming the firm's president and CEO in 1999.[2] He is on the board of directors at Nike [3], The Bridgespan Group [4] and is chairman of PayPal. Donahoe was named president and CEO of ServiceNow, a cloud company, in February 2017.[5][6]
In January 2020, he will become CEO of Nike.
John Donahoe was born in Evanston, Illinois on April 30, 1960.[7] His father was an accountant at Price Waterhouse in Chicago.[8] In 1978, he graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.[8] He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Dartmouth College, followed by an MBA from Stanford Business School.[9] Donahoe is of Irish descent.[10]
After his senior year of high school, a friend's father asked him to work at his Schlitz beer distribution company. "You'll make good money," he said. It was a union job and the first requirement was that he join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.[11]
Before joining eBay he worked for Bain & Company (a worldwide consulting firm based in Boston) for 20 years, starting as an associate consultant and rising to become the firm's president and CEO in 1999.[2]
In March 2005 he was hired as president of eBay Marketplaces. His role was to focus on eBay's core business, which accounts for a large percentage of the company's revenues. He made more than forty acquisitions, including Shopping.com and StubHub,[12] and the classifieds sites Gumtree and LoQUo, and most recently, Shutl.[13][14] After his departure from eBay in 2015, Donahoe was replaced by eBay Marketplaces president, Devin Wenig.[15]
In February 2017, he was announced as the president and CEO of ServiceNow, a software company that he became familiar with while working at eBay.[5]
He served on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 2003 to 2012.[16]
In October 2019, he was announced as the next CEO of Nike, and will succeed Mark Parker on January 13, 2020.[17]
Donahoe has contributed to both parties; to Republican candidate Congressman David Dreier of California as well as two Democrat candidates: Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, and Barbara Boxer[18] of California.
He is married to Eileen Donahoe (née Chamberlain), former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.[19] They have four children; three sons and a daughter, and live in Portola Valley, California.[20][21]