- Source of Wealth: Business – Internet (eBay)
- Age: 55
- Birth Place: Montreal, Canada
- Marital Status: Married (Stephanie Swedlove)
- Full Name: Jeffrey Stuart Skoll, OC
- Nationality: Canadian and American
- Date of Birth: 16 January 1965
- Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
- Occupation: Engineer, Internet Entrepreneur and Film Producer
- Education: University of Toronto and Stanford Business School
Canadian born engineer and internet entrepreneur, Jeffrey Skoll, has an estimated net worth of $5.5 billion.
He is the founding president of the internet auction firm eBay. He used the wealth from eBay to become a philanthropist and to put up the independent movie production company Participant Media. As eBay’s first employee and President, Skoll oversaw the company’s meteoric rise from internet start-up to multi-billion dollar company. While he no longer works for eBay, Skoll maintains a sizeable equity stake of approximately 4%. These days, Skoll funnels much of his money and energy into his production company, Participant Media, which makes films intended to inspire social change such as Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth. Jeff Skoll was born January 16, 1965, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada into a Jewish family.