It was announced today that Usama Fayyad and Bassel Ojjeh have joined Yahoo! as Chief Data Officer and VP of Technology-Data, respectively. You can read all about their pretty impressive experience and accolades here, but suffice to say, it’s great to see Yahoo!’s continuing commitment to recruit the best and brightest technical and scientific people!

Usama puts it nicely in the press release:
“The opportunity to bring a disciplined, scientific approach to data technologies at Yahoo! was irresistible on both a person and technical level,” said Fayyad. “I look forward to creating a scientific environment at Yahoo! that will continue to attract some of the best technical minds in the industry, while working to apply that knowledge in ways that will benefit all of our businesses.”

Hm…Usama and Bassel would be great folks for Yvette to profile here! We’ll have to bug them after they get settled. Stay tuned…

Nancy Evars
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