allthingsd.comPublished COO Peter Chernin, who now has a successful and well-funded multimedia and investment company called the Chernin Group; Guggenheim Partners digital arm, which is led by former Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn; and Amazon.
adweek.comPublished The news could be painted as a signaling more trouble atop Yahoo—Amoroso took the seat after then-chairman Roy Bostock stepped down at the time of CEO Scott Thompson’s ouster (Ross Levinsohn, CEO of Adweek's parent company Guggenheim Digital Media...
allthingsd.comPublished He had been interim CEO of Yahoo, but lost that job when the Silicon Valley Internet giant hired former Google exec Marissa Mayer. Lurie is the first significant hire by Levinsohn, who became CEO of GDM last month.
adweek.comPublished Last summer under interim CEO Ross Levinsohn (now CEO of Adweek parent Guggenheim Digital Media), Yahoo had been in talks with AppNexus and PubMatic, among others, about replacing Right Media, but those discussions fizzled when Mayer took over.
(Reuters) - Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo Inc's former interim chief executive, has been appointed chief executive of the newly created Guggenheim Digital Media, the digital arm of private equity firm Guggenheim Partners.
Levinsohn spent several months as interim CEO of Yahoo last year after Scott Thompson resigned in a resume scandal, but was ultimately passed over for former Google exec Marissa Mayer, who was named CEO in July 2012.
He was followed then by renewed efforts toward marketers by interim CEO Ross Levinsohn in the months after. So far in the six-month reign of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, there’s been a pile of attention paid to the flashy cultural changes (free food!
He is replacing Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’ Scott Wagner, who served as interim CEO since the summer after Warren Adelman stepped down after only eight months on the job. Go Daddy, the world’s biggest Web hosting and domain company, has hired former...
Apple also announced that Scott Forstall will be leaving Apple next year and will serve as an advisor to CEO Tim Cook in the interim. Scott Forstall, the man in charge of its iOS software efforts and a major executive, is leaving next year and will...
Mayer touts the Olympics programming — hat tip to former interim CEO Ross Levinsohn — as something unique for the company. It is Mayer’s first outing as a public company CEO. But none of it matters, since all eyes were on what new Yahoo CEO Marissa...