chinese guy jerry yang replaces Semel as Yahoo CEO
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jerry yang is the founder of yahoo .com . =============================
Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel stepped down on Monday and handed the reins of the struggling search company to co-founder Jerry Yang after six years on the job.
Susan Decker, former chief financial officer and head of the advertiser group, has been named president. Semel, meanwhile, will assume the position of nonexecutive chairman and serve as an adviser to the management team and board of directors.
"This is the right thing to do for Yahoo and the right time to do it," Semel said in a conference call with analysts and media.
The shakeup comes nearly one week after a somewhat contentious shareholder meeting in which stockholders criticized Semel's pay in light of the company's lackluster stock price and failure to mount any serious challenge to Google on search and search advertising. Shareholders re-elected the board members with only 66 percent approval, which is low compared with the 80 or even 90 percent approval that is usual. In addition, 34 percent of shareholders voted in favor of a proposal to link Semel's pay with the financial performance of the company.
Related perspective Yahoo blows its chance News.com's Charles Cooper on Yang's second coming.With the personnel changes, the company is undoing some of the reorganization it initiated six months ago in which it formed three business units: Technology, Audience and Advertising. Now, Decker will oversee Audience, which she previously headed up, and Advertising, whose head had not been named. The Technology group, which has been searching for a unit head since the departure of Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem several weeks ago, will report to Yang. Co-founder David Filo will oversee the technology organization until a replacement for Nazem is named.
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