David Filo - Chief Yahoo!
David Filo, a native from Moss Bluff, La., co-created the Yahoo! online guide in April 1994 with Jerry Yang and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Filo serves as a key technologist, directing the technical operations behind the company's global network of Web properties. He is credited with helping build Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the Internet's most recognized brands. Filo is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford University's electrical engineering Ph.D. program. He holds a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Tulane University and a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Tim Koogle - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Koogle ("TK") joined Yahoo! in mid-1995 as president and CEO, and was named chairman in January 1999. With more than 14 years experience, Koogle was named one of "The Top 25 Executives of the Year" for 1998 by BusinessWeek. Under his direction, Yahoo! has become a profitable, pre-eminent global Web network, and has achieved several consecutive quarters of increasing profitability and 1998 annual net revenues of $203,270,000. Prior to Yahoo!, Koogle was president of Intermec Corporation, a Seattle-based manufacturer of automated data collection and data communications products, Where annual sales increased nearly 50 percent to more than $300 million during his three-year leadership. Prior to Intermec, Koogle spent nine years with Motorola where he held a number of executive management positions in operations and corporate venture capital. Koogle holds B.S., M.S. and doctorate degrees in engineering from Stanford University.

Jeffrey Mallett - President and Chief Operating Officer
Mallett joined Yahoo! in 1995 as the executive responsible for establishing, operating, and leading Yahoo!'s worldwide organization including programming, editorial, engineering, business development, planning, sales and marketing, and customer service. He is recognized as being instrumental in taking Yahoo! from a start-up to a pre-eminent global media company with 1998 annual revenues of $203,270,000. Mallett's has a successful 14 year track record in the consumer multimedia, software and telecommunications industries. Prior to Yahoo!, he was vice president and general manager of Novell's worldwide consumer division. Before Novell Mallett was vice president and a founding executive team member of Reference, which was acquired WordPerfect Corp. in 1992. He was also was a founder and director of IPT Corp., a private telecommunications company that was acquired by Cable and Wireless in 1987.

Gary Valenzuela - Senior V.P. of Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Valenzuela has more than 18 years of experience in finance within the high technology industry. Prior to joining Yahoo! in early 1996, Valenzuela was CFO, senior vice president of Finance & Administration, and secretary of TGV Software, Inc. Previous to TGV, he was senior vice president of Finance and Administration for Pyramid Technology Corporation, where he managed the growth of the business from $100 million to $250 million in annual revenue. Valenzuela's career also includes executive positions at Wyse Technology, Syntex Corporation and Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Valenzuela is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration and Accounting from San Jose State University.

Farzad Nazem - Senior V.P. of Product Development & Operations, Chief Technical Officer
Nazem joined Yahoo! in early 1996 and as senior vice president of engineering and surfing and was named chief technical officer in January 1997. He is responsible for overseeing all areas of engineering, including site operations and product development. Nazem has more than 17 years of experience in executive and technical positions. Prior to Yahoo!, he was vice president of Oracle Corporation's Media and Web Server Division. Previously, Nazem held various technical positions for SYDIS, Inc. and Rolm Corporation. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University.

James Nelson - Vice President, Finance
James was promoted to Vice President Finance, Chief Accounting Officer in July 1997. Prior to that, James served as the Company's Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since February 1996. From 1990 to 1996, James was employed by Pyramid Technology Corporation, a then-publicly held manufacturer of UNIX minicomputers, where he last served as Vice President Finance. From 1981 to 1990, James was employed by Ernst and Young LLP, where he last served as Senior Manager. Mr. Nelson holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University, and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.

John Place - Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
John has served as the Company's General Counsel since January 1997 and as its Secretary since March 1997. Prior to joining the Company, John was employed at Adobe Systems Incorporated, a publisher of graphics and desk top publishing software products, from 1992 to 1997, where he last served as Senior Corporate Counsel. Mr. Place holds a Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School, a B.S. degree in Economics from San Jose State University, and is admitted to the California State Bar.

Anil Singh - Senior Vice President, Sales
In his role at Yahoo! since 1995, Singh oversees advertising sales, promotions, direct marketing, merchant programs and sales operations for Yahoo! worldwide. Born in South Africa, Singh's career has focused on technology sales. He has more than 11 years experience in developing business sales operations for high-tech startups and computer industry corporations in the personal computing, networking and communication sectors. Prior to Yahoo!, Singh was a vice president of sales for Socket Communications, a mobile computing company, where he built domestic sales channels and key OEM partnerships. Singh has also held executive sales positions with Novell, Mountain and Acer, and Convergent Technologies. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of London.

Timothy Brady - Vice President, Production
Brady oversees production for Yahoo! properties worldwide. As Yahoo!'s third employee, Brady initially played a key role in successfully managing marketing, operation and business development activities to launch Yahoo! commercially. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Brady was with Motorola's Semiconductor Division in Tokyo as product marketing manager of the 16-bit microcontroller product line. In this role, he managed the introduction of the product line in Japan, overseeing business development, public relations, and custom product development. Under his direction, the 16-bit microcontroller product line in Japan was built into a $6 million dollar business. Brady holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Karen Edwards - Vice President, Brand Marketing
Karen joined Yahoo! in January 1996 and formed the brand management team responsible for promoting Yahoo!'s global brand and properties. Prior to Yahoo!, Karen worked at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, as director of business operations in France, Spain and Italy, and director of marketing for North America. Her earlier experience includes brand management at the Clorox Company, account management at BBDO for Apple Computer, and public affairs at Chevron USA. She holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Stanford University.

Heather Killen - Vice President, International
Killen is responsible for Yahoo!'s overall business growth outside the United States, and management of international strategic partnerships. In this role, Killen manages multi-country teams in product development, sales and marketing, administration, and technical assistance. She has 11 years experience in communications and journalism. Prior to joining Yahoo! in 1996, Killen worked in business development with Ziff-Davis Publishing, and subsequently guided the development of Ziff-Davis’ online services business in Europe. Before Ziff-Davis, Killen was a member of Salomon Brothers' corporate finance team in media. She holds degrees in languages and philosophy from the University of Queensland and the Universite de Paris III, and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

Geoff Ralston - Vice President, Development and Communciations
Geoff came to Yahoo! in October, 1997 with the acquisition by Yahoo! of Four11 Corp. Prior to joining Four11 as VP of Engineering at the end of 1995, Geoff was the creator of the popular LookUP! Internet white pages and do-it-yourself home page service. In the mid 1980's he was a key developer of Hewlett Packard's TCP/IP networking software for Unix based servers and workstations, and subsequently spent 5 years in France leading HP's ISDN technology development group. Geoff returned to United States to become a business development manager for HP, and in 1994 co-founded NetSMART, Inc., an Internet Presence Provider, where he first applied his engineering expertise to the Internet through the development of the LookUP! service. Geoff holds a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from INSEAD, the European Institute of Business Administration.

Ellen Siminoff - Vice President, Business Development
Siminoff heads Yahoo!'s business development and strategic planning efforts. Siminoff is responsible for the company's distribution relationships with OEMs, Internet service providers, browsers, content providers, and merchant and commerce partners. Prior to Yahoo!, Siminoff worked in Internet media at the Los Angeles Times where she developed and managed CareerPath.com and LATimes. Previously, Siminoff co-founded EastNet, an emerging market media barter syndicate, where she spent three years travelling between Eastern Europe and the United States to distribute television programming to Eastern and Central Europe markets. Siminoff has a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Srinija Srinivasan - Vice President, Editor in Chief
Srinija has extensive educational and practical experience in information organization and artificial intelligence. Srinija manages Yahoo!'s team of cataloguers and is responsible for the design and maintenance of Yahoo!'s overall classification and organization scheme, making it the most intuitive, robust, expandable and efficient guide for online infomration and discovery. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Srinija was involved with the Cyc Project a ten-year artificial intelligence effort to build an immense database of human commonsense knowledge, via two companies Microelectronis and Computer technology Corporation (MCC) and Cycorp. At Cycorp, Srinija independently managed its California-based office, working closely with Cycorp's CEO to solicit and sustain West-coast investor relations, and developed the Cyc technology into innovative areas such as database browsing and integration. Srinija's other professional and academic accomplishments include a summer intensive in Japan as a researcher and programmer for Fujitsu Laboratories, and published research papers in highly-acclaimed journals including Government Information Quarterly (Privacy and Data Protection in Japan) and the Journal of Technology Transfer. Srinija holds a B.S. with distinction from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems and conducted course work in Japan, and is proficient in both written and spoken Japanese.

Arthur Kern - Director
Mr. Kern has served as a member of Yahoo!'s Board of Directors since January 1996. Mr. Kern is a Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Media, which owns and operates four commercial radio stations in the Michigan area. From 1969 to 1986, Mr. Kern served in a variety of television sales management and general management positions with Group W/Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Mr. Kern also serves on the Board of Directors of Eller Media Company, a national outdoor advertising company, and Northwest Broadcasting, a group owner of Fox-affiliated television stations. Mr. Kern is a graduate of Yale University.

Michael Moritz - Director
Mr. Moritz has served as a member of Yahoo!'s Board of Directors since April 1995. He has been a general partner of Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm, since 1988. Sequoia provided the original venture capital financing and helped organize companies such as Cisco Systems, C-Cube Micro Systems, Arbor Software, LSI Logic, Linear Technology and Microchip Technology. Mr. Moritz also serves as a Director of Flextronics International and Global Village Communication, as well as several private companies. Between 1979 and 1984, Mr. Moritz was employed in a variety of positions by Time, Inc. Mr. Moritz has an MA degree in history from Oxford University and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Eric Hippeau - Director
Mr. Hippeau has served as a member of Yahoo!'s Board of Directors since January 1996. Mr. Hippeau has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ziff-Davis Publishing Company since 1993. Mr. Hippeau joined Ziff-Davis in 1989 as publisher of PC Magazine. He was promoted to Executive V.P. of Ziff-Davis in 1990, President and Chief Operating Officer in February 1991, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in October of 1991. Mr. Hippeau attended the Sorbonne in Paris.

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