Jerry Yang Co-Founder, Chief Yahoo and Executive Director, Yahoo! Inc. |  36 36 |
| Age | Total Annual Compensation | This person is connected to 36 board members in 3 different organizations across 7 different industries. |
| 40 | $1.00 USD As of Fiscal Year 2008 |
Jerry Yang, is Co-founded Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 and serves as Chief Yahoo. Mr. Yang served as Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo! Inc. from June 2007 to January 2009. Mr. Yang, a leading force in the Internet media industry, has been instrumental in building Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the world's most recognized brands. Since Yahoo! Inc.'s founding, Mr. Yang has been a key member of the executive management ... team. His focus at Yahoo! over the years has included corporate strategy, Yahoo!'s technology vision, strategic business partnerships and international joint ventures, and recruiting key talent. In addition to serving on the Yahoo! Board of Directors, Mr. Yang currently serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems (since July 2000), Yahoo! Japan, and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., and is also on the Stanford University Board of Trustees. He has been Executive Director of Yahoo! Inc. since March 1995. He served as a Director of Ziff-Davis Inc. since April 1998. He served as a Director of American Internet Corporation, PipeLinks, Inc., Growth Networks, Inc. and Combinet, Inc. Mr. Yang holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford's electrical engineering Ph.D. program.
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