June 20, 2006

Skoll Foundation Appoints Lance Henderson Vice President, Program and Impact

PALO ALTO, Calif. — June 13, 2006 —The Skoll Foundation announced today that Lance Henderson has been named Vice President, Program and Impact, at the Foundation. A seasoned foundation executive with more than 15 years of experience directing innovative programs in the social sector, Henderson will lead the Skoll Foundation’s strategic program development, execution and evaluation, with primary emphasis on grantmaking investments and services that advance the field of social entrepreneurship.

Henderson joins the Skoll Foundation from the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, where he held a number of executive positions throughout his 12-year tenure. Henderson served as the Director of Finance and Administration and later as the Director of Fund Development during a period of rapid expansion of the agency’s programs, funding and infrastructure. Most recently, he served as Interim Executive Director, leading the agency’s innovative public policy, client service and HIV prevention programs. During Henderson’s tenure, the $25 million agency more than doubled in size and was widely regarded as one of the most effective and well managed HIV organizations in the U.S.

Concurrent with his work at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Henderson served as Chief Financial Officer and then as President of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation. There he played a leadership role in conceiving, organizing and funding this new foundation to expand HIV treatment access in resource-poor countries in Africa and Asia.

Henderson began his career as a nonprofit executive in 1988 at The Names Project Foundation in San Francisco, following a successful investment banking career with Dean Witter Reynolds, where he managed a range of corporate finance relationships in the technology, real estate and biotechnology industries.

Henderson will be a member of the Skoll Foundation’s executive team, led by President and CEO Sally Osberg. “Lance brings to the Skoll Foundation a wonderful combination of executive and grassroots experience mixed with energy and enthusiasm about the impact social entrepreneurs can have in solving complex global challenges,” said Osberg. “Lance’s work in the AIDS community has been truly remarkable, and we’re confident he will bring the same kind of creativity and leadership to the field of social entrepreneurship.”

Henderson earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

About the Skoll Foundation

Headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley, the Skoll Foundation was created by eBay’s first president, Jeff Skoll, to promote his vision for a more peaceful and prosperous world. Today the Skoll Foundation advances systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs—individuals dedicated to pioneering new solutions that result in lasting improvements to complex social problems.

The Skoll Foundation invests in social entrepreneurs through the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. It connects them through Social Edge, an online community at www.socialedge.org, and via the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School, University of Oxford. It celebrates social entrepreneurs through projects such as The New Heroes, a public television documentary series that tells 12 dramatic stories of social entrepreneurs who bring innovative, empowering solutions to intractable social problems around the world. For more information, visit www.skollfoundation.org.