The post of director of Yahoo! take Carol Bartz (Carol Bartz) of the Company Autodesk, dedicated software, announced on Tuesday AFP, referring to The Wall Street Journal.At the head of Yahoo! Bartz will replace Jerry Yang - the founder of the company, whose resignation the resignation was announced on 18 November 2008. Yang spoke strongly against the sale of Yahoo! company Microsoft. Because of the breakdown of the transaction, an amount estimated at tens of billions of dollars, shares of Yahoo! much cheaper, leading to a number of shareholder discontent.
60-year-old Carol Bartz from 1992 to 2006 served in Autodesk president, chairman of the board and general director. As of January 2009, Bartz is the executive director of the company. Prior to joining Autodesk Bartz worked at Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment and 3M, as well as a member of the boards of Cisco Systems and Intel. Fortune magazine has included in its list of 50 most influential women in business.
