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Mike Kail Joins Yahoo As Chief Information Officer

By TechTaffy Desk

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Yahoo has appointed Mike Kail as CIO and SVP, Infrastructure. He will be heading Yahoo’s IT and data center operations, reporting to CEO Marissa Mayer. Most recently, Mr. Kail served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix. Prior to that, he was VP of IT Operations at Attensity. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University. You can read Marissa Mayer’s Tumblr post on the appointment here.

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