Tim Mayer

Current

• Vice President, Search Business at Yahoo!

Past

• Vice President, Search Products at Yahoo
• Vice President, Web Search Products at Overture
• Vice President & GM, Web Search Division at FAST Search & Transfer

• Director of Product Management at Inktomi
• Product Analyst- Summer at Realnames (Centraal)
• Project Leader at Thomson & Thomson

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Education

• Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business
• Babson
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges

• Hotchkiss
• Harrow School

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Tim Mayer’s Summary

Tim Mayer is responsible for the product direction of Yahoo! Search Technology. Tim brings over 10 years of search experience to Yahoo! with previous roles at Overture, FAST Search & Transfer, Inktomi and Thomson Corp. Tim was previously Vice President of Web Search Products at Overture where he led the product direction of the web search product as well as managing the major web search affiliate partner relationships. Prior to Overture, Tim was Vice President and General Manager of the FAST Web Search division including the core search technology and the alltheweb.com search destination. Before FAST, Tim spent two years leading product management and product marketing in the web search division at Inktomi.

Before entering the web search area, Mayer worked at Thomson & Thomson as the project manager of the SAEGIS and NameStake search platforms. Mayer received an MBA from Babson College, Wellesley, Mass., and a BA in English Literature from Hobart College, Geneva, New York.

Tim Mayer’s Experience

• Vice President, Search Business

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  December 2007 — Present (10 months)

  Lead for all Business/Revenue in the Yahoo Search Division including Search Monetization, Search Distribution (business development) as well as GM of Yahoo Local, Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Personals and Yahoo Travel

• Vice President, Search Products

  Yahoo

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  November 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 2 months)

  Lead for Yahoo Search globally including Web Search and Multimedia Search

• Vice President, Web Search Products

  Overture

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  2003 — 2003 (less than a year)

• Vice President & GM, Web Search Division

  FAST Search & Transfer

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  2002 — 2003 (1 year)

• Director of Product Management

  Inktomi

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

• Product Analyst- Summer

  Realnames (Centraal)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  June 1999 — August 1999 (3 months)

• Project Leader

  Thomson & Thomson

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  September 1993 — June 1998 (4 years 10 months)

  Started two new businesses- Saegis and Namestake
  Product manager for Compumark product

Tim Mayer’s Education

• Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business

  1998 — 2000

• Babson

  MBA, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, August 1998 — May 2000

  Activities and Societies:

  Cum Laude
  Director of Babson Venture Technology Group
  Captain Soccer Team

• Hobart and William Smith Colleges

  BA, English Literature, 1989 — 1993

• Hotchkiss

  HS Diploma, High School, 1986 — 1989

• Harrow School

  High School, 1983 — 1989