Ross Levinsohn Leaves Yahoo

Tuesday, 31 July 2012 by Unknown

A little less than two weeks after Marissa Mayer was appointed as Yahoo’s new CEO, the company’s former top exec and interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, is on his way out.
Mayer sent a note to the company on Monday
announcing his departure, a Yahoo spokesperson confirmed in an e-mail to Mashable. “Ross has done a terrific job during his time at Yahoo!. We wish him all the best,” the spokesperson wrote.
Before becoming interim CEO — a post he was named to after Yahoo’s last CEO, Scott Thompson, waspushed out by the company’s board — he served as Yahoo’s executive vice president of the Americas. Many thought he would be instated as the company’s long-term CEO before Mayer was named to the post, especially since he did so well in the interim period, negotiating the sale of the company’s stake in Alibaba and handling a difficult patent dispute with Facebook.
Levinsohn served as interim CEO from May 13 to July 17. He joined Yahoo in late 2010 under then-CEO Carol Bartz. Before Yahoo, he worked at Fuse Capital, a digital media fund. Before that, he worked at News Corp.
No news on where Levinsohn will be headed next.


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