Speaker
Jeff Weiner
Executive Vice President, Network Division, Yahoo! Inc.
Jeff Weiner serves as Executive Vice President of Yahoo!’s Network Division and is a key member of the company’s executive team. In this role, Weiner oversees the majority of Yahoo!’s consumer-facing assets including Yahoo.com, Search, the Community and social media properties such as Groups, Flickr and Bix, Communications products such as Mail and Messenger as well as the media properties under News and Information and Entertainment.
From 2002 to 2006, Weiner served as senior vice president overseeing the Yahoo! Search and Marketplaces division which included Search as well as Local, Shopping, Travel and Autos businesses. Beginning in November 2005, Weiner added responsibilities for Yahoo Search Marketing and Yahoo! Small Business.
During his tenure, Weiner was part of the Search leadership team that directed the acquisition and integration of Inktomi, AltaVista, FAST and the development of Yahoo! Search Technology. Additionally, he helped launch the company’s suite of social search products – including Yahoo! Answers – and led the acquisitions of del.icio.us and Flickr.
He was also part of the leadership team that oversaw the company’s revitalized Search Marketing efforts. While overseeing Search and Marketplace, Weiner also helped establish the Technology Development Group, a team focused on technology incubation and evangelism which has since evolved into Yahoo!’s corporate-wide Advanced Product Team.
From 2001 to 2002, Weiner was the senior vice president of corporate development at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for overseeing the development and modification of overall corporate and individual business unit strategy as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to Yahoo!, Weiner was the co-founder of Windsor Digital, a private equity firm focused on digital and media investments. From 1994 to 2000, he worked at Warner Bros., where after starting in the corporate planning and development group, he helped conceive the initial plan for Warner Bros. Online and played a key role in developing and overseeing the division.
Weiner holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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