https://www.recode.net/2017/8/10/16126376/uber-ryan-graves-steps-down-ceo-search >Ryan Graves, the first Uber employee, will be stepping down from his role as SVP of global operations at Uber in September, Graves told Uber staff in an email. >Graves will focus on his role as the board director, he wrote. This is one in a series of transitions in his role since he joined Uber in 2010. First he was a general manager, then CEO, then president, and most recently he took on the role of SVP of global operations when now former president Jeff Jones joined the company.