But the move marks a further departure from the old guard, led by Sanford I.
And while that may ruffle some feathers among the old guard, it's not necessarily all bad.
There is no assurance that Omidyar's efforts will reap any greater good than the old guard.
Yet no new stars have emerged in the last decade to sweep the old guard away.
He can take heart from Argentines' rejection of the old guard, personified by Mr Menem.
Should he do that, he will be able to sweep out the UMNO old guard.
Rather like a Shakespearean play, as the new leader departed, one of the old guard arrived.
There was the old guard resistance at first to the dismantling of big bureaucratic structures.
Peter Diamandis, the foundation's chairman, believes the old guard is no longer able to innovate.
As the old guard disappears and there is more political openness, who will gain power?
The old guard apparently thought ASEAN was doing just fine, thank you very much.
Getting and keeping them healthy along with 39-year-old guard Jason Kidd will be key going forward.
And so the old guard tabled a no-confidence motion, forcing an extraordinary general meeting.
Do you get rid of the old guard on the board or the newbie current executives?
For one thing, although LDP's gains have cheered the old guard, the success is deceptive.
The old guard of hanger-ons and consultants once again line up at the trough.
The resistance of the unelectable old guard to ineluctable change is the main source of instability.
Some see it as a last-ditch attempt by Turkey's old guard to cling to power.
One can envision a scenario where Apple could, again, disrupt the old guard of content provision.
It was opposed by the Free Democrats and an old guard of cold-war defence buffs.
The old guard was looking for someone closer to the middle and best able to defeat Bush.
Mr Simitis no doubt hopes to fend off the fury of his party's passionately anti-Turkish old guard.
It was also opposed by many of ZANU-PF's old guard, loth to share the spoils of power.
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Vice President Alexander Rutskoi will probably emerge as the ringleader of the Old Guard opponents of structural reform.
For some in the food world's old guard, vulgar cookbook language is an assault on once-genteel food writing.
And the old guard Telfair Academy museum has a fine arts neighbor in the architecturally modern Jepson Center.
And in Europe, says Mr Paltridge, there is evidence that the old guard is finally yielding to change.
For now, the old guard uses manipulation of the media, unfair elections, bribes and intimidation to maintain control.
But ASEAN's old guard opted for immediate integration, in effect making itself answerable for the other nations' advancement.
Poland, meanwhile, has shown that newcomers to the EU can be just as obstructive as the old guard.
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