3 posts and columns on Chief Product Officer

Next Yahoo Challenge: Earnings Triumph or Waterloo?

in News on October 7, 2010 at 8:44 am PT

While a lot of investor focus has been on the executive turmoil at Yahoo recently, the real attention will soon be turning on its third-quarter earnings call two weeks from now. That’s on October 19, with a conference after the markets close, an event that big Yahoo investors are telling BoomTown will be under a great deal of scrutiny. Not just to assess the numbers and their direction, but to listen to the kind of explanation CEO Carol Bartz will give Wall Street for all the management upheaval.

Yahoo Confirms Hiring of Former Microsoft Exec Blake Irving as Chief Product Officer

in News on April 19, 2010 at 6:15 am PT

Yahoo said it has hired former Microsoft exec Blake Irving as its chief product officer. Reporting directly to CEO Carol Bartz, Yahoo said in a statement, Irving will “lead the company’s products organization, which is responsible for the vision, strategy, design and development of Yahoo!’s global consumer and advertiser product portfolio.” The move confirms a post BoomTown wrote last week about Yahoo’s efforts to hire the longtime Microsoft exec, whose last job there was corporate VP of its Windows Live Platform group.

MySpace Musical Chairs: Jason Hirschhorn Also In as Chief Product Officer

in News on April 27, 2009 at 9:09 am PT

MySpace has officially announced the appointment of entrepreneur and former AOL exec Mike Jones as COO, as BoomTown had reported earlier today. But the social-networking site also named former Sling Media top exec Jason Hirschhorn as chief product officer in what has become a series of senior management moves at MySpace. Both Hirschhorn and Jones will report to newly named CEO Owen Van Natta, the former COO of Facebook, who replaced MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe last week. Once the trio get their bearings, many sources indicate that News Corp., owner of MySpace, has given Van Natta and his key execs free reign to remake the unit from top to bottom.
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