Lynda Clarizio

Exclusive: Platform-A Head Coleman Out at AOL, as Well as CFO (and More to Come?)

Kara Swisher in News on April 29, 2009 at 8:23 pm PT

Platform-A President Greg Coleman–the former Yahoo advertising sales exec who came to AOL only three months ago–is leaving the company, sources said, as new CEO Tim Armstrong remakes his top staff in preparation to spin off the Time Warner online unit. Coleman was brought to AOL by former CEO Randy Falco in February, replacing Lynda Clarizio, and will be replaced by a Google ad exec, Jeff Levick. Armstrong, sources said, announced the moves to his staff tonight, right after he told Coleman about his decision late today. Also out: CFO Nisha Kumar, who came to AOL in early 2007 from Time Warner, owner of the online unit.

AOL International Head Out: Rejiggering Commences!

Kara Swisher in News on February 26, 2009 at 2:44 am PT

Yahoo’s not the only place BoomTown gets internal memos from! Here’s two corporate missive about big changes in AOL’s international–such that it is–unit, as the head–Maneesh Dhir (pictured here)–moves on. The longtime staffer at the Time Warner unit will “return to his entrepreneurial roots,” according to a memo from AOL CEO Randy Falco below.

Weekend Update, 02.07.09

Beth Callaghan in News on February 7, 2009 at 4:24 pm PT

What spreads faster than economic gloom and doom, and is more infectious than professional anxiety? That phenomenon known as “25 Things.” Just in time for Facebook’s fifth birthday, the record-breaking waste of time may have reached critical mass this week. Elsewhere this week…

The Entire Internal Memo About AOL's Ad Head Switcheroo

Kara Swisher in News on February 3, 2009 at 9:01 am PT

As BoomTown reported earlier today, I just got sent the entire internal email–penned and just sent out by AOL CEO Randy Falco–about the replacement of its Platform-A President Lynda Clarizio with former Yahoo top advertising sales exec Greg Coleman. An AOL press release has also gone out about the move, made to turbocharge the flagging fortunes of its online ad business. “No doubt Greg is joining Platform-A at a difficult time,” writes Falco in the memo. “The deepening economic recession is affecting every corner of the economy, including our own.” Translation: Yahoo was kindergarten! Get to work pronto, Greg!

AOL Ad Head Clarizio Out–Being Replaced by Former Yahoo Sales Head Coleman

Kara Swisher in News on February 3, 2009 at 8:30 am PT

The game of executive musical chairs among Web companies keeps on going, with sources telling BoomTown that AOL ad head Lynda Clarizio will be departing the online service and be replaced by former high-ranking Yahoo advertising exec Greg Coleman. The move at AOL, which has been in the works for only a week, could be announced as early as today, although I have been hearing rumors of such a development since late last week. Both AOL’s content and communications units have been getting an overhaul of late, and now it seems it is time for its lackluster ad business.

What the Combined Yahoo-AOL Might Look Like, as Talks Drag On–Oops–Heat Up!

Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2008 at 12:40 am PT

As has been copiously reported here and all over, Yahoo and AOL have been engaged in never-ending talks about a possible deal to merge their flagging Internet businesses. Now, sources tell me, the circle of executives at both companies interfacing with each other has been widened, for purposes of due diligence. That includes Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who is in New York this week–where AOL parent, Time Warner, is located–to meet once again with its CEO, Jeff Bewkes, to see if they can actually complete the merger. Now, all this frantic activity does not mean a deal will necessarily be struck. But it is just this kind of ramped-up blabbery that has many at both companies predicting that a deal will go through, sooner or later, as soon as Time Warner and Yahoo can agree on a price.