Biography
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), James Campbell (real estate) 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, $2.6B sale of its semiconductor business to the group that became Avago and then Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO), the $2B acquisition of Dako, and the $5B spin-off of Keysight (NYSE: KEYS); spin-off of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL); the $4B sale of StubHub; the $9B divestiture of eBay’s Classifieds Group to Adevinta; the $13B take-private of Adevinta led by Blackstone and Permira; the move to managed payments for a $70B+ GMV business via Adyen; and strategic acquisitions including eBay Korea, 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.
- a central role in eBay’s transformation from a sprawling business spanning payments, ticketing, classifieds, and global marketplaces to a focused, enthusiast-driven marketplace. Major transactions included the spin-off of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL); the $4B sale of StubHub; the $9B divestiture of eBay’s Classifieds Group to Adevinta; the $13B take-private of Adevinta led by Blackstone and Permira; the move to managed payments for a $70B+ GMV business via Adyen; and strategic acquisitions including eBay Korea, TCGplayer and Goldin Auctions. She also guided the organization through major regulatory shifts affecting global digital platforms—data privacy, digital services regulation, tax policy, and cross-border commerce—and advised through multiple CEO successions and shareholder activism campaigns. Huber led enterprise frameworks addressing cybersecurity and AI governance, privacy protection, and broader risk management.
- Previously, as GC of Agilent Technologies, Huber advised the board and executive leadership on strategy, governance, and capital deployment while leading global legal, compliance, government affairs, communications, and philanthropy. Key transactions included Agilent’s IPO (then the largest in Silicon Valley), the
- 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 product, money and customer flows; consumer protection, payment systems regulations, tax, trade and tariffs. Business transformation and cost restructuring; geo-political scenario planning.
- Regulatory, Geopolitical and Risk Management: Led legal and compliance functions across global business platforms within regulated businesses; board oversight of regulated industries; geopolitical and enterprise risk management review and analysis, data protection and privacy, cybersecurity; 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, Advisory Board Member at the Millstein Center on Corporate Markets at Columbia, Lecturer at Stanford and Yale Law, and frequent speaker on leadership, governance and AI at various board and governance forums. Marie contributed to a Stanford Law AI course, is an executive coach with The ExCo Group and advises a health/beauty/wellness fund investing in Korea, Japan and the U.S.
Marie earned her B.A. from Yale, J.D. from Northwestern and was a General Course Student at the London School of Economics. She enjoys cycling, running, learning Korean and golf and exploring contemporary art.
