COMPANY

Official Website:
http://www.yahoo.com/

Industry:
Media

Ticker:
NASDAQ:YHOO

Corporate headquarters:
Sunnyvale, CA

Sales:
$5.3B (2005)

Employees:
9800

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Aristotle Balogh	Business	c. 1964		CTO of Yahoo!
Susan Decker	Business	c. 1963		President of Yahoo
Cambria W. Dunaway	Business	c. 1962		EVP at Nintendo of America
David Filo	Business	1966		Co-Founder of Yahoo
Blake Jorgensen	Business	c. 1960		CFO of Yahoo
Timothy Koogle	Business	5-Jul-1951		CEO of Yahoo, 1995-2001
Ted Meisel	Business	c. 1964		CEO of Overture, 2000-03
Susan Mernit	Business	c. 1952		Former VP of Netscape, AOL
Dan Rosensweig	Business	c. 1961		COO of Yahoo, 2002-07
Terry Semel	Business	24-Feb-1943		CEO of Yahoo, 2001-07
James Slavet	Business	c. 1970		Greylock Partners
Jerry Yang	Business	6-Nov-1968		Co-Founder of Yahoo
Gideon Yu	Business	c. 1971		CFO of Facebook

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Frank Biondi	Business	9-Jan-1945		Former CEO, Viacom, Universal Studios
Roy J. Bostock	Business	c. 1940		Chairman, Yahoo and Northwest Airlines
Ronald W. Burkle	Business	c. 1953		Supermarket Billionaire
John Chapple	Business	c. 1954		CEO of Nextel Partners, 1998-2006
Eric Hippeau	Business	c. 1952		CEO of Ziff-Davis, 1993-2000
Vyomesh Joshi	Business	c. 1956		EVP Imaging & Printing, Hewlett-Packard
Arthur H. Kern	Business	c. 1947		American Media
Robert Kotick	Business	c. 1963		CEO of Activision
Maggie Wilderotter	Business	9-Feb-1955		CEO of Citizens Communications
Gary L. Wilson	Business	c. 1941		Chairman of Northwest Airlines, 1991-2007
Jerry Yang	Business	6-Nov-1968		Co-Founder of Yahoo

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David Filo	Business	1966		Co-Founder of Yahoo
Timothy Koogle	Business	5-Jul-1951		CEO of Yahoo, 1995-2001
Edward Kozel	Business	14-Jun-1955		Former Cisco executive
Michael Moritz	Business	c. 1954		Partner, Sequoia Capital
Terry Semel	Business	24-Feb-1943		CEO of Yahoo, 2001-07

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Stewart Butterfield	Business	1973		Co-Founder of Flickr
Caterina Fake	Designer	c. 1969		Co-Founder of Flickr
Rasmus Lerdorf	Computer Programmer	22-Nov-1968		Creator of PHP programming language

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David Bohnett	Business	2-Apr-1956		GeoCities cofounder

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Gray Davis	Politician	26-Dec-1942		Governor of California, 1999-2003
Howard Dean	Politician	17-Nov-1948		Chairman of the Democratic Party
Al Franken	Comic	21-May-1951		Bow-tied pundit and ex-SNL player
Ben Stein	Game Show Host	25-Nov-1944		Host of Win Ben Stein's Money

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