Jeff Dossett

Exclusive: Former Yahoo and Microsoft Exec Dossett to Demand Media

Kara Swisher in News on October 16, 2010 at 1:23 am PT

According to sources, Jeff Dossett–who has held top online jobs at both Yahoo and Microsoft–has taken a job at Demand Media as its SVP of Content Partnership Development. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand, which sources said is now prepping its road show for its upcoming IPO, has been picking up big company execs to add to its roster.

Yahoo Mobile Head David Ko Takes Over Audience Job Too (But Mobile Product Development Moves Under Balogh)

Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2009 at 12:13 am PT

David Ko, head of Yahoo’s mobile division, has added the Internet giant’s vast media properties in the U.S. to his portfolio, according to several sources. With purview over programming and more for the main Yahoo media properties, such as News and Finance, he will now control a vast swath of its consumer-facing products. But, in a related move, product development for mobile has moved from under Ko to CTO and EVP of Products Ari Balogh.

Yahoo's Bartz Shuffles the Exec Deck, Filling Audience and Other Top Slot; Is the Board Next for a Makeover?

Kara Swisher in News on November 18, 2009 at 2:00 pm PT

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is making the most substantive changes in her exec ranks since she did a massive restructuring of its staff in late February, according to sources close to the situation. “She is continuing to clean the place up,” said one top exec about the moves, which are likely to be announced internally tomorrow. Will these changes also extend to Yahoo’s board?

Departing Yahoo Media Exec Dossett to AdventureLink as CEO

Kara Swisher in News on May 29, 2009 at 5:16 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown wrote that Yahoo’s SVP North American Audience, Jeff Dossett, was leaving the Internet company after a very short stint there, because of personal reasons. But I also noted that sources said he was likely to quickly land at a start-up, and in fact, he has resigned from Yahoo to do just that. Dossett, who came to Yahoo from Microsoft in November, is taking a job as CEO of AdventureLink, an online site aimed at adventure travel and booking such trips.

Yahoo Audience Head Jeff Dossett Departs Company

Kara Swisher in News on May 28, 2009 at 1:20 pm PT

Yahoo’s SVP of Northern American Audience, Jeff Dossett, is leaving the company. Reasons for the departure are personal, said sources, who said that Dossett is most likely to do a start-up. Dossett did not return emails asking for comment, but Yahoo confirmed his resignation to BoomTown.

More on Yahoo Reorg in Process: Ari and Hilary Rule, but Who Is Joel Jones?

Kara Swisher in News on February 25, 2009 at 2:28 pm PT

“It’s being changed every minute,” joked one Yahoo source about the reorg now in process at Yahoo, which is being shepherded by new CEO Carol Bartz. Actually, it’s kind of true, as execs at the troubled Web company are being moved around the board like chess pieces, while others players are added. According to numerous sources, mostly in Yahoo’s Sunnyvale, Calif. HQ, things are still in flux and not completely settled as yet. But one thing is clear: Layers are being collapsed quickly, as fewer people are in charge of more, with all roads leading to Bartz.

Yahoo News Head Khemlani Departs for Hearst as VP Digital Media

Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2009 at 9:02 am PT

Neeraj Khemlani, Yahoo’s general manager and executive editor of news, is set to leave his job–right in the midst of a major restructuring of its media unit–to work at Hearst Corp. Khemlani’s departure could be announced to his staff at Yahoo as early as today. While Khemlani was in line to head one of the three main prongs of the new content organization, running a possible network programming arm, sources inside and outside Yahoo said he instead has opted to take a job as VP and Special Assistant to the CEO for Digital Media at Hearst.

Yahoo Media Unit to Get a Reorg Too!

Kara Swisher in News on February 22, 2009 at 3:28 pm PT

Besides the more massive management reorganization that new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz could announce this week, as BoomTown reported on Friday, the Internet company’s powerful media arm might also see a drastic shift in management structure even sooner. According to several sources inside the company, U.S. Audience SVP Jeff Dossett has been working on the changes for a while, part of an overall change in how Yahoo makes and delivers content. Under a plan being considered, the media unit will be split into three parts: vertical programming, network programming and search monetization.

"Hurricane Carol" Bartz Could Announce a Major Yahoo Management Reorg Next Week

Kara Swisher in News on February 20, 2009 at 9:39 pm PT

Several sources inside and outside Yahoo told BoomTown that new Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz–whom some Yahoos have dubbed “Hurricane Carol”–could be ready to announce a major reorganization of its management structure as early as next week, most likely on Wednesday. While that shift could be pushed out a week or two or rolled out in pieces, Yahoo execs are nervously awaiting the moves by Bartz to put a new regime in place in order to more easily power through a massive reset of the troubled company. While many top execs are very much in the dark about what Bartz will do, most expect her to severely roll back a variety of previous reorganizations in favor of a more accountable C-level-style set-up, with execs like a COO, CTO and a new, more powerful CMO (who will also head PR), all reporting to her.

Yahoo Content Model Gets Remixed as Product Development Is "Globally" Centralized

Kara Swisher in News on February 20, 2009 at 5:45 am PT

Will Yahoo’s media properties fall flat with sweeping new changes that are afoot that will drastically change the way the company bakes its content offerings? Or will the ability to have a single, highly scaleable, centrally developed architecture make the media programming Yahoo delivers more responsive and flexible in the era of fast-twitch bloggers (all while cutting costs)? According to many sources inside and outside the company, product development for Yahoo’s heavily trafficked media operations–including its powerful News, Finance and Sports sites–is set to be moved under Ash Patel, who is EVP of the company’s Audience Product Division.