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Stanford has hired former Nike CEO and PayPal board chairman John Donahoe as its next athletic director, the university announced on Thursday, July 31.
Donahoe, 65, worked at Nike from 2020-24 and had been on the company’s board of directors since 2014. Prior to that, he was the CEO at ServiceNow, a global software company, and eBay. He also worked for Bain & Company, a global management consulting company, for nearly 20 years, including a stint as its CEO.
ESPN reported that Stanford had been looking for a “nontraditional candidate” for the role. Donahoe is a former basketball player at Dartmouth who later went on to earn an MBA from Stanford, but he has no prior experience working in college athletics.
“Stanford occupies a unique place in the national athletics landscape,” Stanford president Jon Levin said in a statement. “We needed a distinctive leader — someone with the vision, judgment, and strategic acumen for a new era of college athletics, and with a deep appreciation for Stanford’s model of scholar-athlete excellence. John embodies these characteristics. We’re grateful he has agreed to lead Stanford Athletics through this critical period in college sports.”
Donahoe’s tenure with Nike ended last year with his abrupt retirement, a move the New York Times reported came “amid merchandising struggles and a falling stock price.” Nike co-founder Phil Knight praised the Cardinal’s hire in a statement, saying that the school “couldn’t have picked a better person than John.”
Donahoe will replace Bernard Muir, who stepped…
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