Yahoo Announces Reorganization

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 by Jordan McCollum

Yahoo Announces Reorganization

We were pretty sure about this last week, but today Yahoo has formally announced their reorganization. Excuse me, their “Realignment to Support Core Strategies.” Of course. (via)

According to Kara Swisher, SVP Brad Garlinghouse will be replaced by Scott Dietzen, former CTO of Zimbra, which was acquired by Yahoo in September.

Just a year ago, Yahoo had a major management shakeup as Terry Semel stepped down and Jerry Yang and Susan Decker stepped in. Now, June rolls round again and it’s time for more changes. Among the changes announced:

Three new “teams” reporting to Sue Decker (President of Yahoo):

Audience Products Division, led by Ash Patel of Platforms & Infrastructure—companywide product strategy and product management.
A U.S. region, led by Hilary Schneider, former head of the Global Partner Solutions group—accountability for all go-to-market activity in the U.S.
Insights Strategy team, leader TBA—centralizing and executing a common strategy for the use of data and analysis across Yahoo!.

Further changes come under the Yahoo technology organization, still led by Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh:

Developing a world-class cloud computing and storage infrastructure, to be handled by the new Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Group.
Rewiring Yahoo! onto common platforms, with all consumer-facing platform teams under the Audience Technology Group, led by Venkat Panchapakesan.
Creating a stronger partnership between product and engineering teams

New leadership in the tech organization includes:

Search group: Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Research, to direct search strategy
Search group: Tuoc Luong, leader of Search Engineering, as the interim leader of the search product team.
Advertising Technology Group: David Ku (under Search)

Yahoo says that Prabhakar and Tuoc will also continue to be the leaders of their former devisions.

In other news, Carl Icahn is probably still not impressed. He filed another proxy board with the SEC, but according to paidContent, the new filing basically rehashes the arguments of the previous filings and fights.

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8 comments on “Yahoo Announces Reorganization”

Ashley Says:

June 27th, 2008 at 4:22 am

Changes are always beneficial.Audience Products Division is really great option!
Otilia Otlacan Says:

June 27th, 2008 at 6:24 am

Interesting to know where Garlinghouse will go – maybe he’ll join Sandberg at Facebook
A VP from Microsoft will then complete the Facebook team and everyone’s happy, circle will be closed.

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Nicole Price Says:

June 27th, 2008 at 6:25 am

They are doing this for the nth time. Part of the reason for the exodus. They are in grief and it would be better if they realized that they are and settle with MS.

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Symbian Says:

June 27th, 2008 at 11:55 am

Yahoo has alot to do in its structure.

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This Week in Search Marketing Staffing - 6/30/08 Says:

June 30th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

[...] Following the departure of several key executives and the upcoming partnership with Google, Yahoo! has reorganized their corporate structure to support their core strategies. The new structure has created three new team which will report to Sue Decker, President of [...]
Top Rated Digital Says:

July 3rd, 2008 at 11:17 pm

What is the point, really? As soon as Microsoft and their partners (whomever they turn out to be) take over, the shuffling will commence once again. Yahoo just needs to concede, and get this transition over with, so they can get back to business.

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mad Says:

August 13th, 2008 at 11:46 am

Yahoo is a Big One! I believe in beneficials!
paul - Meeting rooms Says:

November 27th, 2008 at 6:35 am

Yahoo has shown a great impact in the market right now. With the introduction of new tools and resignation of Jerry yang – I think we would see a structure that will compete with the big names.

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