2 posts and columns on Jeff McCombs

Former Yahoo Biz Ops SVP McCombs to Tumri as CFO

in News on April 9, 2009 at 12:04 am PT

Yahoo’s ranks keep fanning out all over the tech scene. This time it is former top-ranking Yahoo exec Jeff McCombs, who has signed on to be CFO of Tumri, an online advertising start-up. Backed by Accel Partners and others, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Tumri is trying to crack into the online ad space with what it calls “dynamic and intelligent display advertising solutions.” McCombs is a big hire for a small company like Tumri. He was SVP of Business Operations at Yahoo and had also served as chief of staff to former president, Sue Decker.
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"Hurricane Carol" Bartz Could Announce a Major Yahoo Management Reorg Next Week

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.