Jeffrey Skoll (ElecE 8T7), the Montreal-born founding president of Internet auction house eBay, has been named by the CBC as one of Canada’s richest and most powerful Canadians. Skoll has signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate to charity half of his worth, estimated at $2.4 billion.

The University of Toronto engineering graduate who pumped gas to put himself through school is part of a growing group of billionaires who say they will give away most of their cash to charitable causes.

In 2008, Forbes magazine put the net worth of Skoll, who also founded Participant Media, the company behind films such as An Inconvenient Truth, at $3.6 billion.

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