Charting The Yahoo Brain Drain
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) executives and senior engineers have been leaving in droves recently (some by choice, some not)— today alone brought news that two more were out the door. In case you’re having trouble remembering the others, here’s a refresher course. Just from a look back through our own reporting, we counted 22 executives that have fled to greener pastures over the past six months. Here they are, including what jobs they left for:
—VP of Sales Operations Dan Foehner, to Facebook
—VP of Business Operations and Product Marketing Dmitri Krakovsky, to SuccessFactors
—Senior Director of Advertiser Marketplace Operations Dave Myers, to interCLICK
—Senior VP of Business Operations Jeff McCombs, to Tumri
—VP of Product and Strategy for Yahoo HotJobs and Yahoo Small Business Kevin Krim, to Bloomberg
—Yahoo VP of Operations for Search and Advertising Dayne Sampson, to Microsoft
—Chief Scientist for the Search and Advertising Technology Group Jan Pedersen, to Amazon and then Microsoft
—Zimbra Founder Satish Dharmaraj, to Redpoint Ventures
Many more after the jump
—Director of Yahoo’s Political Advertising Unit Diane Rinaldo, to TPM
—CFO Blake Jorgensen, to Undisclosed
—EVP for Connected Devices Marco Boerries, to Undisclosed
—Yahoo News head Neeraj Khemlani, to Hearst
—VP of Search and Advertising Sciences Larry Heck, to Microsoft
—Chief Communications Officer Jill Nash, to Undisclosed
—SVP and head of Yahoo Media Scott Moore, to Microsoft
—Director of Marketing Bettina Cisneros, to Time Inc.
—VP of US Field Marketing Eric Hadley, to Microsoft
—President Sue Decker, to Undisclosed
—Yahoo EVP of engineering for Search and Ad Tech Qi Lu, to Microsoft
—Chief of Insights Peter Daboll, to Bunchball
—EVP and MD for Europe and Canada Toby Coppel, to Undisclosed
—Head of Yahoo News Alan Warms, to Undisclosed
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