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The Board of Directors of the Company appointed Jerry Yang, age 38, to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr. Yang will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective June 18, 2007. Mr. Yang co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo. Mr. Yang co-founded the Company with Mr. Filo and has served as a Director and an executive officer of the Company since April 1995. As Chief Yahoo of the Company, Mr. Yang's focus over the years has included corporate strategy, technology vision, strategic business partnerships and international joint ventures, and recruiting key talent. In addition to serving on the Company's Board of Directors, Mr. Yang also currently serves on the boards of Yahoo! Japan, Cisco Systems, Inc. and Alibaba.com Corporation, and is a member of the Stanford University Board of Trustees. Mr. Yang holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford's electrical engineering Ph.D. program.
Total Compensation: $ —
Effective as of May 14, 2007, the appointment of Blake Jorgensen, age 47, to serve as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Jorgensen will commence employment with the Company on or about June 4, 2007.From January 2002 until joining the Company, Mr. Jorgensen was Co-Director of Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners, an investment bank specializing in the growth sectors of the economy, which he co-founded. From January 2002 until March 2007, Mr. Jorgensen also served as Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of Thomas Weisel Partners. In those capacities, he participated in the management of the administrative, finance, legal, accounting, regulatory and human resource functions of the bank. From October 1998 to January 2002, Mr. Jorgensen served as a Partner and Director of Private Placements at Thomas Weisel Partners. From December 1996 to September 1998, Mr. Jorgensen was a Managing Director and Principal at the Corporate Finance Department of Montgomery Securities. Previously, Mr. Jorgensen worked as a management consultant at MAC Group/Gemini Consulting and Marakon Associates. Mr. Jorgensen received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1988 and an A.B. in Economics from Stanford University in 1982.
Total Compensation: $ —
Aristotle Balogh joined the Company as our new Chief Technology Officer on February 6, 2008 to lead Yahoo!'s global engineering organization and manage all technical operations.
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Mr. Murray has served as Senior Vice President, Finance since October 2004 and Chief Accounting Officer since December 2004. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Murray held several positions with Sun Microsystems, Inc., including Vice President, Global Financial Services and Treasurer from July 2002, Treasurer from July 2001 to June 2002 and Vice President Finance, Sun Services from April 1998 to July 2001.
Total Compensation: $ 15.96 M
Susan L. Decker, age 44, to serve as President of the Company. Ms. Decker will assume the role of President of the Company effective June 18, 2007. Ms. Decker previously served the Company as Executive Vice President, Advertiser and Publisher Group since January 2007; Chief Financial Officer from June 2000 until June 2007; Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration from January 2002 to December 2006; and Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration from June 2000 to January 2002. Ms. Decker also serves as a director of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Costco Wholesale Corporation and Intel Corporation. Ms. Decker holds a bachelor of science degree from Tufts University and a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School.
Total Compensation: $ 3.09 M
Mr. Callahan became Executive Vice President in April 2007 and has served as General Counsel and Secretary since September 2003. Mr. Callahan served as Senior Vice President from September 2003 to April 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Callahan served as Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary from June 2001 to September 2003 and served in various other positions in the Yahoo! legal department from December 1999 to June 2001. Prior to joining Yahoo! in December 1999, Mr. Callahan held positions with Electronics for Imaging Inc. and the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Joshi has served as a member of the board of directors since July 2005. Mr. Joshi was elected Executive Vice President of the Imaging and Printing Group at Hewlett-Packard Company in 2002 after serving as Vice President since January 2001. Mr. Joshi also served as Chairman of Phogenix Imaging LLC, a joint venture between HP and Kodak, from 2000 until May 2003. Prior to that Mr. Joshi was Vice President and General Manager of Inkjet Systems. Mr. Joshi holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Hippeau has served as a member of the board of directors since January 1996. Mr. Hippeau has been a Managing Partner of SOFTBANK Capital, a technology oriented venture capital firm, since 2000. Before joining SOFTBANK Capital, from 1993 to 2000, Mr. Hippeau served as Chairman and CEO of Ziff-Davis, Inc., an integrated media and marketing services company serving the technology community. Mr. Hippeau joined Ziff-Davis, Inc. in 1989 as Publisher of PC Magazine and held several senior executive positions before becoming Chairman and CEO. Mr. Hippeau also serves as a director of Starwood Hotels and Resorts WorldWide, Inc.
Total Compensation: $ —
On July 26, 2007, the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. appointed Mary Agnes Wilderotter to serve as a director of Yahoo!. Previously Wilderotter served as senior vice president of the worldwide public sector division at Microsoft Corporation, where she was responsible for strengthening customer and partner outreach in the government and education markets, as well as working across Microsoft's business divisions to develop and coordinate forward-looking strategies. Prior to Microsoft, Wilderotter was president and chief executive officer of Wink Communications Inc., executive vice president of national operations for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and chief executive officer of AT&T's Aviation Communications Division. She also served as senior vice president of McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. and was a regional president managing the company's California, Nevada, and Hawaii region. Wilderotter has received national recognition for her contributions to the communications industry. She was twice honored with the Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership awarded by the National Cable Television Association, the 1999 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Women in Cable and Telecommunications Foundation and its Top 10 Women in Cable & Telecommunications Award. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Xerox Corporation and holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Business Administration from the College of the Holy Cross.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Burkle has served as a member of the board of directors since November 2001. Mr. Burkle is managing partner of The Yucaipa Companies, a private investment firm, which he co-founded in 1986. Mr. Burkle also serves as a director of Yucaipa Equity Partners, L.P., Occidental Petroleum Corp. and KB Home Corporation.
Total Compensation: $ 39.82 M
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Mr. Wilson has served as a member of the board of directors since November 2001. Mr. Wilson has served as Chairman of the board of directors of Northwest Airlines Corporation, the parent of Northwest Airlines, Inc. since April 1997. Mr. Wilson also serves as a director of CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. Mr. Wilson holds a Bachelor's degree from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School of Business.
Total Compensation: $ —
Mr. Kern has served as a member of the board of directors since January 1996. Mr. Kern is an investor in several media and marketing companies. Mr. Kern was also co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of American Media, a group owner of commercial radio stations sold to AMFM (now part of Clear Channel Communications, Inc.) in October 1994. Mr. Kern is a graduate of Yale University.
Total Compensation: $ 8.64 M
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Mr. Filo, a founder of Yahoo! and Chief Yahoo, has served as an officer of Yahoo! since March 1995, and served as a director of Yahoo! from its founding through February 1996. Mr. Filo reports to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Terry S. Semel. He is involved in guiding Yahoo!'s vision, is involved in many key aspects of the business at a strategic and operational level, and is a stalwart of the Company's employee culture and morale. Mr. Filo co-developed Yahoo! in 1994 while working towards his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University, and co-founded Yahoo! in 1995.
Total Compensation: $ —
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Total Compensation: $ 12.43 M
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Mr. Kotick has been a director of the Company since March 2003. Since February 1991, Mr. Kotick has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Activision, Inc., a publisher of interactive entertainment software products.
Total Compensation: $ —
The Board of Directors of the Company unanimously elected Roy Bostock to serve as non-executive Chairman of the Board of the Company. Bostock has been a member of the company's Board of Directors since May 2003. He has extensive advertising and marketing experience, having spent more than 38 years in a variety of senior level positions in that industry. Bostock served as Chairman of BCom3 Group, Inc., a global advertising agency group, from January 2000 to mid-2001. From July 1990 to January 2000, Bostock served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and its successor company, The MacManus Group, Inc., an advertising and marketing services firm. Bostock is Chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America; he also serves on the board of Morgan Stanley and is currently the chairman of the board of directors of Northwest Airlines Corporation. Bostock holds a Bachelor's degree from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
