Virginia Rometty - MediaJobsDaily http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily Hire Minds Delivering News & Insight About Jobs in the Media Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:08:35 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Marissa Mayer Named CEO & President of Yahoo Marissa Mayer, known for being vice-president at Google and its first female engineer, has been named the CEO and president of Yahoo.

According to The New York Times, Mayer resigned today from her 13-year tenure at Google via telephone; she’ll begin her new job tomorrow.

During an interview with the newspaper, Mayer recalled “an amazing time at Google.” She added that “it was a reasonably easy decision” to accept the position at Yahoo at “one of the best brands on the Internet.”

In her new role, Mayer joins a list of a few women in an elite leadership role. There’s Meg Whitman, chief executive at Hewlett-Packard, Virginia Rometty, chief at IBM, and Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook. continued…

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]]> Vicki Salemi http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/marissa-mayer-named-ceo-president-of-yahoo_b11651#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/marissa-mayer-named-ceo-president-of-yahoo_b11651 http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/?p=11651 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:47:40 +0000