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