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John Murrell in News on March 9 at 1:09 pm PT
The White House today named Todd Park, the chief technology officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, to fill that role on a national level, replacing the departed Aneesh Chopra. Park comes in with an entrepreneurial background, good press on his three years at HHS and, as the son of Korean immigrants, a compelling personal story.
Kara Swisher in News on October 17, 2011 at 4:05 pm PT
Another day, another top Yahoo exec out.
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Peter Kafka in News on May 3, 2011 at 8:28 pm PT
Eugene Wei, Hulu’s senior vice president for audience, is leaving the video site to start his own company. Hulu CEO Jason Kilar announced the move via a
blog post published Saturday. Wei joined the company in its pre-launch days, nearly four years ago. Last year
founding CTO Eric Feng left the site to become a partner at Kleiner Perkins. Wei, who had previously been a VP of product, took over some of Feng’s responsibilities then.
Kara Swisher in News on October 11, 2010 at 10:56 am PT
Adam D’Angelo is too shy to subject himself to a BoomTown video–or perhaps too savvy–but he did agree to a sit-down for a short interview recently in a nondescript room in the Palo Alto, Calif., office building that houses Quora, the hot social answers start-up.
D’Angelo was, of course, the CTO and VP of Engineering at Facebook, as well as a prep school friend of the massive social networking site’s co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
John Paczkowski in News on October 4, 2010 at 11:03 am PT
Skype’s found a new CEO. And sources tell us (and others) that it’s Tony Bates, SVP and GM of Cisco’s enterprise, commercial and small-business unit. One good reason to believe the reports: Cisco just announced that he’s leaving the company and his duties are being assumed by CTO Padmasree Warrior.
Kara Swisher in News on May 7, 2010 at 12:08 pm PT
According to sources close to the situation, AOL has hired Alex Gounares as its CTO.
Gounares’s departure was announced internally at Microsoft today, where he is corporate VP of Advertising Research and Development and CTO for the software giant’s Online Services division.
Kara Swisher 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.
Kara Swisher in News on April 8, 2010 at 3:52 pm PT
As BoomTown reported earlier today, Yahoo is searching for a new CTO and chief product officer. Its current exec in charge, Ari Balogh, confirmed in an interview this afternoon that he is leaving the company due to family issues.
The leading candidate for Balogh’s job at Yahoo, said several sources, is former Microsoft exec Blake Irving.
Kara Swisher in News on April 8, 2010 at 9:38 am PT
According to numerous sources, Yahoo has been seriously courting former Microsoft exec Blake Irving to take over as one of its key execs, running its product organization and essentially becoming the Internet “visionary” many think the company lacks.
While it is unclear if Irving has agreed to take the job, sources said Yahoo management was keen on him working there.
It’s unclear what the move means for current CTO and Chief Product Officer Ari Balogh. But sources said Balogh has been involved in the search, and was planning on taking some time off from Yahoo soon for personal reasons.
