Adevinta ASA (ADE) announced that Julie Simpson, eBay's Vice President, Head of Internal Audit and Chief Audit Executive has been appointed by eBay to join Adevinta's Board of Directors, effective immediately. She will replace eBay Chief Legal Officer Marie Oh Huber as a Board member. At eBay, Julie Simpson oversees three critical risk management and control functions: Internal Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley and Enterprise Risk Management, as well several of eBay's finance leadership development programmes.

Ms. Simpson also serves on the Board of the eBay Foundation. Ms. Huber will continue to serve in her capacity as SVP, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Secretary of eBay Inc. Julie Simpson will also join the Audit and Risk Committee, replacing Mark Solomons, while Mr. Solomons will replace Marie Oh Huber on the Remuneration committee. Prior to joining eBay, Julie Simpson has spent approximately twenty years in a variety of risk, controls, accounting and finance management roles at Yahoo!, PayPal, Visto, and 3Com.

She started her career at Arthur Andersen, a public accounting firm, working in the Los Angeles and San Jose, California offices. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.