Yahoo Appoints Mike Kail as Chief Information Officer

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Aug 15, 2014 | Information Professionals on the Move, United States, Yahoo | 0 |

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) announced that Mike Kail has joined the company as CIO and SVP, Infrastructure. In this role, Mike will lead Yahoo’s IT and data center operations, reporting to CEO Marissa Mayer.

Kail brings more than 23 years of IT Operations experience, with a focus on highly scalable architectures, to Yahoo. Most recently, he served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix. Prior to that, he was VP of IT Operations at Attensity, where he was responsible for the Americas data center operations team, including managing various big data systems including their Hadoop cluster, HBase, and MongoDB components. Mike holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Source: Business Wire

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