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New Yahoo Chief of Staff Comes In, While Previous One Goes to Facebook

in News on April 15 at 1:45 am PT

New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has selected Marta Nichols, who was the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s VP of investor relations, as his new chief of staff. Interestingly, Joel Jones, the chief of staff under Thompson’s predecessor, has moved to Facebook. After CEO Carol Bartz was ousted in the fall, Jones moved to a job as VP of Americas Ad Marketplaces at Yahoo. He’ll be part of the business operations team focused on the ads business at the social networking giant.

Exclusive: Another Longtime Yahoo Ad Sales Dude–This Time, Frank Weishaupt–Departs

in Media on May 12, 2011 at 10:04 am PT

Frank Weishaupt, an 11-year Yahoo advertising veteran and one of its top sales execs, is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. Unlike several other recent departures, where high-ranking execs left for jobs at hot start-ups such as Zynga, Groupon and LivingSocial, Weishaupt has no immediate plans to join another company.

One Last Yahoo Reorg Missive: Bartz Tells Employees What She Already Said. Again.

in News on February 26, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Goodness gracious, make it stop! You must know by now how much BoomTown loves internal Yahoo memos. But this is getting ridiculous. It’s been like a flash flood after a long drought at Sunnyvale HQ today, as Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz turns on the firehose of a whole lot of communicating. “I know you guys have reorg fatigue,” wrote Bartz in the latest email to employees about the management reorganization finally announced this morning. Also memo fatigue at All Things Digital HQ, if you can believe it.
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New Yahoo Management Structure: The Entire Memo

in News on February 26, 2009 at 11:46 am PT

Along with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s external email earlier today, the company also outlined the new management structure in another memo. It’s pretty much what BoomTown has been reporting all week. Top-down simplification, which is another word for: Carol rules over Yahoo. CTO Ari Balogh gets a lot of stuff as new head of products, and so does U.S. head Hilary Schneider, including mobile, as EVP of North American Region. Bot report to Bartz. Here’s the entire memo of Yahoo’s new organization.

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

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.
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