View Full Version : Influential People on Search: Knock-knock, guess who?
Nacho
04-01-2005, 10:42 PM
http://www.ihispanic.com/sewf/guess-who1.jpg
When he wakes up every morning and goes to work, his objective is to create value for consumers as well as businesses in matching buyers and sellers in one of the most important marketplaces on the web. He is among one of the most influential individuals that can leverage ________’s technology and assets so that millions of users can find information on the web through search.
Knock-knock, guess who?
Nacho
04-02-2005, 01:43 PM
Any takers? or should I write the answer backwards at the bottom of the page :p
randfish
04-02-2005, 03:50 PM
It looks a little like the dark haired guy from the British version of "The Office". Could also be a genetic mix of Nathan Lane and Mark Wahlberg?
Nacho
04-02-2005, 04:21 PM
I'll give out the answer if no one get's it by Monday.
rustybrick
04-02-2005, 09:43 PM
Nacho?? :confused:
Nacho
04-03-2005, 12:12 AM
Nacho?? :confused:
No no, Barry! I wish I could "leverage ________’s technology and assets " of the company he works for. I'll give you a clue:
He works for one of the BIG 3 search engines.
DianeV
04-03-2005, 07:45 AM
I dunno. Ask Jeeves? Too broad. The Yahoo or Adwords person(s) who advise ad agencies about PPC?
Gurtie
04-03-2005, 08:49 AM
Sergey? (on the basis of the evil slant to the eyebrows :) )
rustybrick
04-03-2005, 10:55 AM
Tim Mayer. ;) :D
Marcia
04-03-2005, 01:45 PM
It has to have something to do with Adwords or Yahoo's PPC.
>>Tim Mayer.
I only met Tim one time and it was in a dark place, but that doesn't look like his eyes, as I remember.
rustybrick
04-03-2005, 01:53 PM
Well, now I know who it is. Someone gave me a hint. :)
Marcia
04-03-2005, 02:08 PM
That is Jeff Weiner.
Nacho
04-03-2005, 03:10 PM
That is Jeff Weiner.
That's right! Marcia got it.
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/docs/jeff_weiner2.jpg (http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/executives/weiner.html)
Jeff Weiner (http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/executives/weiner.html)
Senior Vice President,
Search and Marketplace at Yahoo! Inc.
As senior vice president, Jeff currently oversees all aspects of Yahoo!'s commerce and listings businesses, including Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Real Estate and local content including Yahoo! Yellow Pages, Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Get Local. His team is focused on how to create value for consumers and businesses by effectively matching buyers and sellers in the marketplace. The team is also focused on leveraging Yahoo!'s technology and assets to best optimize the consumer search experience in terms of user experience, product quality and monetization efforts.
From 2001 to 2002, Jeff was the senior vice president of corporate development at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for overseeing the development and modification of overall corporate and individual business unit strategy as well as mergers and acquisitions. Prior to coming to Yahoo!, Jeff was co-founder of Windsor Digital, a private equity firm focused on digital and media investments. From 1996 to 2000, he helped conceive the initial plan for Warner Brothers Online and played a key role in developing and overseeing the division, one of the first entertainment groups to take advantage of the Internet medium. Prior to Warner Brothers, he was a strategic planning analyst at Braxton Associates, the strategic management consulting division of Deloitte and Touche.
Jeff holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
I hope you guys liked playing this "Influential People on Search: Knock-knock, guess who?" game. If populairty holds for it, we can have one every week. The whole purpose of the game is for our members, guests and ourselves to learn more about who others are in important to our industry. Come closer as a community by learning more about who the players are.
What do you think? Would you be interested in more of these series?
sure, go ahead! But how about some scientists too? In fact we were trying to count how many of the great scientists had beards...a suprisingly large number. Wonder why.
Nacho
04-03-2005, 11:12 PM
sure, go ahead! But how about some scientists too? In fact we were trying to count how many of the great scientists had beards...a suprisingly large number. Wonder why.
Sure, do you have a picture of Ricardo Baeza-Yates?
Chris_D
04-03-2005, 11:40 PM
In fact we were trying to count how many of the great scientists had beards...
You could just post pics of beards, with names all mixed up, so we could guess which beard went with which name....
:)