Yahoo Hires Tapan Bhat as GM of Finance Vertical, in Tech Veteran’s Return to Company (EXCLUSIVE)
09.05.2022 - 16:01
/ variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorYahoo hired Tapan Bhat as president and GM of Yahoo Finance to oversee its financial and business vertical — marking the seasoned exec’s return to the internet media company after more than a decade.Bhat will report directly to Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone. He starts at the company May 16 and will be based in San Jose, Calif.Most recently, Bhat spent the last three years advising startups and their boards.
Before that, he was chief product officer at NerdWallet, heading product and engineering, design, data, revenue and partnerships for the personal finance website. He also served as chief product officer at Realtor.com, a division of News Corp.
Bhat, and has held senior roles at Adobe Systems and Intuit. Verizon Media sold Yahoo last year for $5 billion to private-equity firm Apollo Group.
From 2005-10, when Yahoo was an independent company, Bhat served as Yahoo’s SVP of consumer, where he led the transformation of yahoo.com from a static page of links to a portal featuring news, email previews and video. He also opened up Yahoo’s homepage to third-party content, and has part of that Bhat developed Yahoo Buzz which provided real-time highlights of the most popular articles from external sites.
While at Yahoo, Bhat also developed Yahoo Glue, a universal search experience, and increased the company’s market share internationally.“We are thrilled to welcome back Tapan, whose experience in building and scaling consumer products, including within the finance category, will help us accelerate innovation across Yahoo Finance’s offerings for years to come,” Lanzone, formerly head of Tinder and CBS Interactive, said in a statement. “Tapan also has a unique history with the Yahoo brand, spending many
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