Gary Bengier |
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 Gary Bengier capped a 23-year business career by building and leading the financial team in the early formative years at eBay. From 1997 to 2001 he was eBay's Chief Financial Officer, during which time he led the company's initial and secondary public offerings. Deeply involved with the company’s strategy, he helped grow eBay to over $9 billion in gross traded merchandise sales. He also served as S.V.P. for Strategic Planning before retiring at the end of 2001.
With a focus on financial and strategic roles, Gary has participated in a variety of new technologies, including the Internet, semiconductor chip design, computer peripherals, scientific instrumentation, and biotechnology. Prior to eBay in 1997, Gary was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of VXtreme, Inc., a developer of Internet video-streaming products. From 1993 through 1996, Gary was Corporate Controller at Compass Design Automation, a publisher of electronic circuit design software. He has also held senior financial positions at Qume Corporation and Bio-Rad Laboratories and spent several years as a management consultant for Touche Ross & Co. Gary has served on the board of directors of Logitech, Inc., a computer peripherals manufacturer, where he was lead independent director and chair of the audit committee, and on the board of Cobalt Networks, a maker of computer server appliances.
Gary holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.B.A., summa cum laude, in computer science and operations research from Kent State University.
Gary serves on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit scientific research community that emphasizes multidisciplinary collaboration. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Exploratorium, dedicated to science education of children. Gary is Chairman of the Bengier Foundation.
He currently spends his time on travel, philanthropy, board and committee activities, his family, and on the study of mathematics, physics, and philosophy.
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