The Yahoo! Exodus has just began

For a large global company such as Yahoo!, people hardly notice employees come and go. But if you see a very long list of executives going out the door at this rate, now that’s a cause for concern. Just check out how many bigwigs have left Yahoo this year alone:

From CEOs to founders of acquired properties like Flickr, the list goes on and on.

Drew Buckley, VP Yahoo! Studios
Jeff Karish, VP Strategic Planning, Yahoo! Media Group
Scott Gatz, R&D Manager, Brickhouse
Terry Semel, Chairman and CEO
Greg Coleman, EVP Sales
Bradley Horowitz, VP Yahoo! Advance Technology Division
Salim Ismail, VP, Head of Brickhouse
Joy Mountford, VP User Experience Design
Eckart Walther, VP Search to LiveOps
Jeff Bonforte, VP of Social Search
Vince Broady, SVP Entertainment Content Operations
Chirag Patel, Senior Engineering Manager
Ojas Rege, VP Mobile
Eric Boyd, VP of Platform Engineering
Ian Rogers, General Manager at Yahoo! Music
Ira Kurgan, Chief Business Officer, Yahoo! Media Group
Brooke Chaffin, VP Business Operations, Yahoo! Media Group
Richard Kosinski, VP, Political Advertising, Yahoo!
Mike Speiser, VP of Community (co-founder and CEO of Bix, acquired 2007)
Gary Clayton, VP of Voice Strategy
Jason Zajac, CFO, Yahoo! Network Division
Mike Math, Director of Engineering, Yahoo!
Jason Zajac, VP Strategy, formerly Head of Video
Jeremy Zawodny, Technology Evangelist
Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer and EVP of Research and Strategic Data Solutions
Matthew Berardo, Senior Director of International Business
Caterina Fake, Senior Director of Technology Development
Amr Awadallah, VP of Engineering
Jeff Weiner, EVP Network Division
Qi Lu, EVP, Engineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group
Stewart Butterfield, General Manager, Flickr
Joshua Schachter, Founder – del.icio.us
Brad Garlinghouse – “Peanut Butter Manifesto”
Vish Makhijani – GM for Search

This is just for 2008 and we left out the middle to lower level employees.

Is this a result of Yahoo’s giving up search monetization to Google and dumping Microsoft’s offer? Maybe not entirely but if did hurt their stocks, I’m sure it would have hurt these people’s stock options too.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

10 Comments

Rickey says:

16 years ago

Which needs to be explained to me since one of the reasons that Yahoo rejected Microsoft was because it didn’t want to be swallowed up by the “evil” Microsoft culture — and yet these techie “elites” are leaving anyway?
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andre says:

16 years ago

hey…has anybody posted about Yahoo! Philippines? they’ll be setting up shop here…

sad though to see the great Y!-ers leaving. Yahoo will never be the same.
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JC John SESE Cuneta says:

16 years ago

Yahoo! Asia seems to be independent one way or another. They are very active in Asean alone even with all the fuss about Google-Yahoo-Microsoft, Investor vs Boards, Resignations, etc.

Dunno, just a hunch. And knowing Jojo Anonuevo (he was my former boss and learned a lot from him; and family friend), if he is staying in Yahoo, then it means they’re not much affected by Yahoo International.

^_^
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Animohosting.com says:

16 years ago

It only means one thing. Yahoo needs constant and never ending improvement. Thats why their hiring new people with more creative ideas.
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Jan Alvin says:

16 years ago

I am astonished of how would you able to get those infos.
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jhay says:

16 years ago

Changes do come at a price. It’s too early to say something about the current developments at Y!, give it a few more years they might just be able to pull off something incredible.
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Mighty says:

16 years ago

Hmmm… With the Exodus of people at Yahoo, they seem to be giving up on the competition and allow Google to dominate the Web. Although Google is great but without competition, where will be after a few years?
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james says:

16 years ago

@jan alvin,

simple, these people have blogs too, you dont want the world know whats happening to u? dont blog.
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Berto Dakuikoi says:

16 years ago

hi yuga,

is it possible for you to follow this up with another post that shows the companies where yahoo execs transferred?
hehe.. joke..
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BrianB says:

16 years ago

http://valleywag.com/5018834/one-yahoos-ten-reasons-for-leaving
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