Yahoo names new CEO replacement

Published 5:47 am Saturday, March 18, 2017

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will not be in charge of what is left of the company after its primary business is sold to Verizon. Instead, the investment company called Altaba will be headed by board member Thomas McInerney, Yahoo said in a regulatory filing Monday.

McInerney, 52, is a former executive with Ticketmaster and internet firm InterActiveCorp.

Mayer, 41, would receive a golden parachute of $23,011,325 if she were terminated without cause or for “good reason” of her own after the deal closed, according to a proxy statement Yahoo filed Monday. That figure is lower than the $55 million or $44 million golden parachutes specified for Mayer in previous Yahoo filings, because the payment is based in part on stock options that have vested since the earlier filings, a person familiar with the situation said.

On March 1, Yahoo announced that because of the data breaches, its board had stripped Mayer of her $2 million annual bonus for 2016 and she had forfeited her 2017 annual equity grant of at least $12 million in restricted stock and stock options.

Whether she will have a role in Verizon remains unclear. If she were to be kept on in an operations job, she would not receive the golden parachute.

McInerney is to receive $2 million in annual base salary, double Mayer’s base pay. He’ll also be eligible for a performance-based annual incentive award of another $2 million, plus “long-term deferred compensation” in the form of a grant of up to $24 million after the sale closes, the Monday SEC filing said.

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