US EditionEx-Nike CEO Named AD at Stanford University
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA, AUG 1 – John Donahoe brings extensive CEO experience and Stanford connections to revitalize programs amid football struggles and Olympic success with 39 medals in 2024, officials said.
- Stanford has appointed John Donahoe, who led Nike as CEO from 2020 to 2024, to serve as its new athletic director, with his tenure starting on September 8, 2025.
- The hire follows Bernard Muir's stepping down this year and comes amid Stanford's recent move from the Pac-12 to the ACC and struggles in key sports.
- Donahoe, a 1986 Stanford MBA graduate with executive experience at Bain, eBay, and Nike, replaces Muir after a tenure marked by football and basketball challenges.
- Stanford’s football team has posted four straight 3-9 seasons, and the men's basketball program last made the NCAA Tournament in 2014, while the school holds 137 NCAA titles.
- Donahoe aims to leverage his business acumen to support Andrew Luck’s leadership, rebuild struggling programs, and sustain Stanford’s scholar-athlete model amid college sports changes.
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Stanford hires former Nike CEO as athletic director – Palo Alto Daily Post
Former Nike CEO John Donahoe has been hired as athletic director at Stanford. Donahoe will become the school’s eighth athletic director and replace Bernard Muir, who stepped down this year. He will officially begin in the role Sept. 8. “Stanford occupies a unique place in the national athletics landscape,” school president Jon Levin said in a statement. “We needed a distinctive leader — someone with the vision, judgment, and strategic acumen for…
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