Kara Swisher in Media on May 12, 2011 at 10:04 am PT
Frank Weishaupt, an 11-year Yahoo advertising veteran and one of its top sales execs, is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant.
Unlike several other recent departures, where high-ranking execs left for jobs at hot start-ups such as Zynga, Groupon and LivingSocial, Weishaupt has no immediate plans to join another company.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 9, 2011 at 1:03 pm PT
Nintendo of America has appointed Soctt Moffitt
to the position of EVP of sales and marketing. Effective immediately, Moffitt will work from Nintendo’s office in Redwood City, Calif., and report to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. Previously, Moffitt was SVP and general manager for Henkel Consumer Goods’ personal care division, where he oversaw North American operations for brands such as Dial, Right Guard, Tone and Pure & Natural. Moffitt replaces Cammie Dunaway, who left the company more than a year ago.
Kara Swisher in Enterprise on May 9, 2011 at 9:31 am PT
According to an internal memo from Juniper Networks, which you can see below, one of its top tech execs, David Yen, is departing immediately.
Sources said Yen is headed to Cisco to run its servers business.
The impetus for Yen’s departure might have been formation of the Platform Systems Group, run by Stefan Dyckerhoff, which is prominently mentioned in the memo from Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson and after the jump.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 8:27 am PT
Yahoo is on a bit of a hiring spree, picking up longtime Internet exec Robertson Barrett, to run its critical and powerful News and Finance sites.
Barrett has held top positions at Tribune Interactive, Time Inc., ABC News, Primedia’s Channel One Interactive and The Feedroom.
Barrett worked most recently as chief strategy officer of Perfect Market, a Comcast-backed start-up.
Kara Swisher in News on May 6, 2011 at 11:45 am PT
While there has been a report on a boxing news site that Yahoo Americas head Ross Levinsohn was leaving the Internet giant to run HBO’s sports unit, it’s not so.
Trust BoomTown on this one–I have all top Yahoo execs embedded with Apple iOS and Google Android location tracking devices.
Kara Swisher in News on May 3, 2011 at 10:28 pm PT
Jeff Jordan, the president and CEO of OpenTable who unexpectedly stepped down from his job today at the online restaurant reservation leader, is set to take a job at a major venture firm in Silicon Valley.
While Benchmark Capital was a big funder of OpenTable before it went public in 2009, sources said the likeliest home for the well-known Internet player–Jordan has also been a major exec at eBay–is Andreessen Horowitz.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 2, 2011 at 7:28 pm PT
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has grabbed one of Huffington Post’s top editors, Jai Singh, to become its editor-in chief.
Before moving to the HuffPo as managing editor in 2009, which is now the key content unit of AOL, Singh ran CNET.
Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2011 at 11:14 am PT
Margo Georgiadis, VP of Global Sales Operations at Google, will be COO of Groupon, Google confirmed. She is currently located in Chicago, where the social buying site is headquartered.
Besides COO, BoomTown will officially bestow the title of “Chief Cat Wrangler” on her in recognition of the massive organizational job ahead of her at the notoriously chaotic start-up.
Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2011 at 7:11 am PT
At least one thing in yesterday’s lackluster first-quarter earnings report for Yahoo that got its Microsoft-search-bashing CEO Carol Bartz excited was the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s traffic gusher for big tentpole events such as the Super Bowl and the Oscars.
There will be more of that, it seems, with the elevation of Yahoo exec Sam Silverstein as head of its special events coverage. Sources said it will be a major area of emphasis, given obvious advertiser interest.
