Apart from the opportunity to steer a turnaround, any chief executive would be walking into a company that has already reached enormous scale. The eventual chief executive would also have the opportunity to take Uber public. For now, Uber’s executive search committee, which includes five members of its board, has kept the lid tight on the list of candidates. It was unclear what level of interest, if any, these executives had expressed in the Uber job. Mr. Bain, Mr. Cush, Ms. Mayer, Mr. Staggs and Mr. Arora did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Source: New York Times July 13, 2017 09:00 UTC