Sales Chief Is the Latest to Depart From Yahoo
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Yahoo said Sunday that Wenda Harris Millard, its longtime chief sales officer, is leaving amid a reorganization of Yahooâs sales team.
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Vince Broady, a senior vice president in Yahoo's media group, is the latest executive to leave the company as his duties are scaled back.
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Yahoo Inc. said on Sunday the Internet media company was merging the two main parts of its U.S. advertising business under one sales executive, David Karnstedt, and that veteran advertising sales executive Wenda Harris-Millard has left the company.
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Microsoft confirmed&#160;a number of high-level executive changes, moves that could be designed to better position the company to digest an acquisition of Yahoo, an analyst said.In addition to a number of executive promotions, Microsoft announced that Bill Veghte, senior vice president of the Online Services and Windows Business Group; Satya Nadella, senior vice president, Search, Portals and Advertising Group; and Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group, are all taking on new responsibilities in running Microsoft&#39;s online services, including Windows Live, Search, and MSN.Microsoft may be positioning Nadella to take on the responsibility of the technical integration of Yahoo if the acquisition happens, said Rob Helm, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. &quot;Microsoft is anticipating a shift in its online strategy around the purchase of Yahoo, which means, among other things, that they&#39;re replacing people running the old strategy,&quot; he said.If Nadella is being brought in to integrate Yahoo into Microsoft, he doesn&#39;t have the best track record, said Helm. He was the head of the Microsoft Dynamics unit and was charged with integrating a couple of other acquisitions, including Great Plains. &quot;On his watch, relatively little happened in the way of successful integration,&quot; said Helm. However, Nadella had the post for just a year, so perhaps he didn&#39;t have the opportunity to do more, he said.Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of the Online Services Group, is moving out of a role in Microsoft&#39;s online group. He&#39;ll step down from his position in August, Microsoft said. He plans to stay with the company, but Microsoft did not say in what capacity.Despite these positioning moves, the Yahoo deal is still uncertain, Helm said. &quot;It&#39;s still up in the air, though it seems unlikely that Microsoft would walk away after a bid like this,&quot; he said.Microsoft also said that Andy Lees, who leads marketing for the Server and Tools Marketing and Solutions group, will take over for Pieter Knook as senior vice president of the Mobile Communications Business. Word of Knook&#39;s departure surfaced on Thursday with an announcement from Vodafone that he&#39;d joined the mobile operator.Lees&#39; appointment, as someone with a marketing background, seems to follow a shift in the mobile group toward a focus on consumers, Helm said. Microsoft recently announced plans to buy Danger, a youth-focused mobile software company, and appointed a new marketing executive to target consumers. Pressure from the iPhone, which has done remarkably well in a very brief time, could be driving the shift in strategy for the mobile group at Microsoft, Helm said.Other announcements from Microsoft include news that Brad Brooks will take over for Michael Sievert, who is leaving the company, as corporate vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing. Steve Guggenheimer will become corporate vice president of the Original Equipment Manufacturer Division, moving on from a marketing position with Microsoft&#39;s Application Platform effort.
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(InfoWorld) - The top executive at Yahoo China resigned from his job for "personal reasons" after six weeks on the job, Yahoo's local partner Alibaba.com said in a statement Monday. Xie Wen joined Yahoo China as president on Oct. 17. Alibaba did not offer details surrounding his decision to leave the company. Following his resignation, Xie will continue to serve as a consultant to Alibaba, the Chinese Internet company said. Xie is replaced by Zeng Ming, a senior vice president of Alibaba, who has been involved with strategic planning for Yahoo China since joining the company in August. Alibaba acquired Yahoo's struggling Chinese operations in 2005 as part of a deal that sawÂ Yahoo invest more than $1 billionÂ in the Chinese company, which operates e-commerce sites for business and consumers. Alibaba is in the process ofÂ turning Yahoo China into a community portal siteÂ and search engine -- a transformation that company executives say will take several years to complete.
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Yahoo Inc. said head of sales Gregory Coleman is leaving the company, the latest casualty of a management shakeup following three years of slowing revenue growth and market share losses to Google Inc.
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ChryslerÃÂs top sales executive, Joe Eberhardt, is leaving to take a retail position at the American operation of Mercedes-Benz.
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Yahoo Inc. said on Sunday the  Internet media company was merging the two main parts of its  U.S. advertising business under one sales executive, David  Karnstedt, and that veteran advertising sales executive Wenda  Harris-Millard has left the company.
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The exit of Chief Marketing Officer Tod Nielsen is the sixth confirmed executive departure from the company in the past two months.
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Yahoo Inc  nonexecutive  Chairman Terry Semel is leaving the board, the Internet company  said on Thursday, announcing the end of its formal ties with  the ex-CEO credited with reviving the company and then losing  touch.
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Yahoo's top sales executive is on his way out, and a new global sales organization has been created.
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The executive who leads Microsoft&#39;s government sales effort is leaving to become CEO of a telecommunications company, the software maker said on Tuesday.
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Terry Semel quits as the chief executive of internet search firm Yahoo and is replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang.
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Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday announced a reorganization that marks Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker as a potential successor as CEO and simplifies its structure as it battles faster-growing rival Google.
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Maggie Wilderotter, leader of the software maker's government sales effort, is leaving to be CEO of a rural telecommunications company.
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Yahoo Chairman Terry Semel ended his six-year stint as chief executive officer Monday and will hand over the reins to co-founder Jerry Yang in the Internet icon&#39;s latest attempt to regain investor confidence. Semel, 64, will remain chairmain in a non-executive role.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel stepped down as chief executive in a surprise move Monday, ending his increasingly ineffectual pursuit of online search leader Google Inc. _ a losing battle that had demoralized Yahoo's shareholders and employees.