Wanted: Online Ad Sales Heads for Both Yahoo and Microsoft

Even though they are two of the Internet’s largest advertising businesses, both Yahoo and Microsoft are without top execs to lead those units. Worse, both are just entering a complex online ad sales and search partnership together, which will require a lot of management firepower. Yahoo’s main online ad sales head just left and Microsoft has been searching for one for a year now. So, here’s the skinny on who is in the running.

Another Yahoo Exec Departs

If Lloyd Braun, former Yahoo exec in charge of juicing entertainment who left under a cloud, could poach a few execs from the troubled Internet giant, so can former sales head Wenda Harris Millard, who also left Yahoo earlier this year after a rocky goodbye with management. She has apparently grabbed Vice President of Sales [...]