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Industry Moves: Yahoo SVP Promotions; Ogilvy Names Chief Digital Officer; Netflix; Glam
-- Yahoo has promoted two of its (now non-existent) media group VPs to SVPs. Scott Moore and Vince Broady are now SVPs and report to Jeff Weiner, EVP of the Network Division. Their responsibilities of overlooking various sub-divisions remain the same.
-- Cinemanow president Bruce Eisen has left the company, and has started his own consultancy firm Digital Advisors. He was with the online movie service for eight years.
-- Netflix has appointed Cisco’s heir-apparent, Charlie Giancarlo to its board. “It’s a sign of both the need for Netflix to move more of its video distribution onto the Web - and Cisco’s increased focus on hooking up with content providers, and not just providing hardware and software to enterprises and service providers.”
-- Ogilvy North America has recruited Jean-Philippe Maheu, a former CEO of Razorfish, to take on the newly created post of chief digital officer. Maheu spent six years at Razorfish, retiring in 2003 after guiding the sale of the company to SBI (which itself was acquired by aQuantive in 2004).
-- Glam Media has appointed Jennifer Salant to head its business development. She was formerly the VPof operations and strategic partnerships at iVillage/NBC.
Dan Rosensweig’s Tenure With Yahoo Ends Today; Also Osder’s Last Day
Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig was left without a seat in the musical chairs game Yahoo played late last year. Today, his last official day at the company, he sent an email farewell to the troops filled with the obligatory exclamation points at the end of every Yahoo and then some. It’s too bad he couldn’t leave on an exclamation point, instead departing as the company regroups to handle increased tough competition and to deal with its own internal issues. He doesn’t leave empty handed, though—his severance package is worth $4 million.
From his up-with-people email: “For the last 5 years, we have accomplished much as a team – more than most people or companies will in a lifetime. But most meaningful to me is that we have led while others have followed. We have endured while others have succumbed. Under the leadership of Terry, Jerry and David, Yahoos have created a universe of opportunities that others can only envy. Yahoo! is not just a company… it’s an idea. Yahoo! is what is possible, what is right, and what is worth doing. It’s what others aspire to. Yahoo! is a collection of GREAT people with BIG hearts and even bigger dreams…and it is fun! As I make the move ..., I just want you to know that I am grateful to all of you for what you have accomplished and excited to see what you do next. Thank you for caring about what you do and what it means to the people you do it for. I will always be proud to be a Yahoo! Yodel loud and proud!”
Osder leaving: Farther down the Yahoo food chain, coincidentally today is also Elizabeth Osder’s last day at Yahoo. We were first to report her hiring in July 2005 as senior director, social media reporting to Neil Budde at Yahoo News and now we note her return to consulting; she’ll also continue teaching at USC Annenberg.
Industry Moves: Berger As SVP, New Media, Sony Pictures; Yahoo’s New VP of Click Fraud
-- Richard Berger is moving to Sony Pictures as SVP of new media and technology to help develop digital strategy and policies, including anti-piracy. He’ll report to Mitch Singer, CTO and EVP of new media, according to Variety. Berger has been in the CTO office at parent Sony Corp. of America and also spent time in broadband services and music.
-- Yahoo has appointed Reggie Davis, the in-house attorney who has managed Yahoo’s “click fraud” litigation, to the newly created position of VP of marketplace quality. He will spearhead its fight against search-advertising fraud and accelerate an internal effort to address advertiser complaints about the quality of its network of Web publishers. News.com: Davis said the “discard rate,” or percentage of clicks that for some reason or another were problematic and thus the advertiser is not billed, averaged between 12 percent and 15 percent at Yahoo.
-- Discovery Communications veterans Doug Coblens and Lori McFarling have been named to newly created COO posts at the company. Coblens has been named COO at Discovery Channel and the Science Channel, reporting to president and GM Jane Root. McFarling has been named COO at Animal Planet and Discovery Kids Media, reporting to president and GM Marjorie Kaplan.
Industry Moves: Coppel Promoted To Yahoo CSO
Toby Coppel has been promoted to Chief Strategy Officer for Yahoo from SVP-corporate development. The unpublicized promotion (his Yahoo bio subtly changed) hasn’t changed his basic job description beyond a comma or two—he’s still responsible for “the development of the company’s strategy and for the identification and pursuit of new opportunities on a global basis, including internal development, mergers, acquisitions, investments, strategic partnerships and alliances, and joint ventures.” He reports directly to chairman and CEO Terry Semel and serves on the Executive Operations team. Coppel worked for Semel’s Windsor Digital as managing director, joining Yahoo in 2001.
-- As it happens, Coppel is participating in our upcoming conference: The Economics of Social Media, April 26 in LA.
Deanna Brown Leaves Yahoo; Joins Scripps As President, Interactive Group
You’re reading it here first: Deanna Brown, who was the general manager of Yahoo Media Group’s Lifestyles business unit, is leaving and joining Scripps Networks for the newly created position of president, Interactive Group. She will report to John Lansing, president of Scripps Networks, and will be based in NYC offices.
At Yahoo, Brown was responsible for the food, health, gaming, and other verticals, and that experience will help her with Scripp’s flagship brand HGTV and Food Network as well as other digital properties. Her previous experience includes time at AOL as VP & GM of the Life Management division. She was also the CEO and publisher at short-lived lifestyle magazine Breathe. And then, she was the CEO of Inside.com, where both Staci and I worked back in the days.
Not sure who will take her place at Yahoo..another senior departure after Yahoo’s reorg.
Scripps has been building up its digital media creds, and bought Shopzilla in U.S. and uSwitch in UK in the last couple of years. Expect more interactive M&A from Scripps, as Ron Feinbaum, the EVP, is out looking at prospects.
Related:
-- Industry Moves: Feinbaum Upped To EVP at Scripps Networks; Looking At M&A and New Online Launches
-- Yahoo Reorg: Yahoo Media Group Now Reports To Weiner
-- Yahoo Reorg: Lloyd Braun Is Out Of YMG; Division Now Part Of Audience Group; Who’ll Head It?
