Yahoo! has appointed Hilary Schneider as senior vice president of Marketplaces, a new business unit of Yahoo!.
Schneider will report to Susan Decker, chief financial officer, Yahoo!. She will be based in Sunnyvale, California.
“Schneider will develop an overarching classified and listings strategy that includes new ways of monetizing transaction listings across Yahoo!, as well as have day-to-day oversight of Yahoo!'s Marketplaces properties in the U.S., including Autos, Classifieds, HotJobs, Personals, Real Estate, Shopping & Auctions, Travel and Yellow Pages.” [source]
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Schneider was senior vice president at Knight Ridder, a revenue company. Schneider has also worked as president and CEO of Red Herring Communications.
Susan Decker, CFO, Yahoo!, said: "Hilary has extensive experience in both the operational and technological aspects of classifieds and media businesses that will enable her to provide important strategic direction to our new Marketplaces group,
By organizing all of these properties under Hilary's leadership, we believe that we are ideally positioned to leverage our current assets to take advantage of the significant growth potential in this large and rapidly growing online space”. [source]
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