2nd Yahoo VP Out This Week; 14 Out So Far

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that another Yahoo executive Jacki Kelley VP Sales Strategy is jumping ship. She joined the company about a year ago. Jacki is being poached by Wenda Harris Millard, who left Yahoo earlier this year for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) after a rocky goodbye. To view other Yahoo departures click here.

At MSLO, Kelley will be the Executive Vice President of media sales, overseeing all digital, magazine and broadcasting sales. A noted perk with her new position is that Kelley will be in New York on a full-time basis. As it’s been reported that Kelley was beginning to tire of travel between NYC and Sunnyvale, CA, it would be a luring factor for Kelley’s ultimate decision to leave Yahoo.

Kelly was recruited as VP despite the fact she knew nothing about the internet business. This was classic Terri Semel. He clogged the internet power house with old world cronies who knew nothing about the internet business as it is widely known today. Terri himself did not know what email was when he joined Yahoo! and he was baffled why people would send eachother email when they could simply make a phone call or walk over to their desks. Click here to see all executive departed to date.