Jeff Bonforte
Jeff Bonforte has returned to Yahoo! as Senior Vice President of Communications Products, responsible for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Contacts and Yahoo! Calendar. Before that he was Chief executive officer (CEO) of Xobni, a company that Yahoo! bought in July 2013.[1]
Bonforte joined Xobni as CEO in February 2008. Before Xobni, he served as both the Vice President of Social Search and the Vice President of Real Time Communications for Yahoo. He joined Yahoo in August 2005. Prior to working for Yahoo he was the President of Gizmo5, which was sold to Google in November 2010. He was also the founder and CEO of the startup i-drive.com from December 1997 – 2001.[2]
In late 2013, in regards to a multi-week Yahoo Mail outage and massive user dissatisfaction with the site re-design, Jeff Bonforte, the head of Yahoo Mail, said at a weekly employee meeting that Yahoo would have to "kick users hard" in the nuts before they would leave Yahoo Mail.[3][4][5]
References
- ↑ Swisher, Kara (2013-08-28). "Xobni's Jeff Bonforte Officially Running Yahoo's Communications Products". All Things Digital - Dow Jones. Retrieved March 18, 2015.
- ↑ "Jeff Bonforte - CEO @ Xobni". CrunchBase. 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
- ↑ Blue, Violet (2013-12-12). "Yahoo forced to acknowledge Yahoo Mail problems in worst failure yet". ZDNet. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
- ↑ Swisher, Kara (2013-12-11). "Kick the Can — Yahoo Mail Is a Consumer Disaster, but Company's Response Is Even Worse". All Things Digital - Dow Jones. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
- ↑ Casale, Rich (2013-12-12). "Yahoo Mail Leader Offers Swift Kick Solution For Failed Mail". MateMedia. Retrieved 2015-03-18.