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April 29, 2008

Update: We Now Know 8 of Microsoft’s 12 Proposed Yahoo Board Members

Mark Hendrickson

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In March we wrote a preliminary list of the people Microsoft will propose as alternate board of directors in the event their acquisition efforts go hostile.

See our recent interview with Citi analyst Mark Mahaney who discusses the probable outcomes to Microsoft’s effort.

Microsoft is proposing ten new board members, plus two alternates (here’s the current board members they would replace).

The original list (we now believe Tom Freston was incorrect and has been removed):

We’re now adding the following individuals to that list based on new sources of information:

CrunchBase Information
John Chapple
Edward Meyer
Jaynie Studenmund
Kenneth Goldman
Richard Kashnow
James Mooney
Ross Levinsohn
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  1. Vinay

    April 29th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Richard Kashnow - Director, Ariba, Incorporated

    Awaiting for the updated bio-info. :)

  2. Eric Martindale

    April 29th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    Oh my. They’re qualified. What’re the shareholders going to do?

  3. Jason Bogovich

    April 29th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Sorry for the off topic post but is the comments database having some trouble. Maybe user error but I wasn’t seeing the form until just now.

  4. Alex Schleber

    April 29th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    yeah… they’re so eminently qualified to understand Web 2.0/3.0 and search/paid search… is this a joke?

    If you think that these guys are one day really going to put the heat on Google - go read here.

  5. Alex Schleber

    April 29th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    eHarmony… LOL… maybe they can send Google a personality questionnaire…

  6. Chris

    April 29th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    Yahoo as a puppet company will be a joke. Investors should sell now.
    Thanks to Yahoo for putting YUI on sourceforge before it was too late.

    If anybody from Yahoo is reading, mess everything up before you leave.
    You have no more responsibility to investors in this type of situation. Investors should know to sell at this point.

  7. Chris

    April 29th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    Wow, I had almost hit the seesmic button there, wheh…..
    That was close.

  8. Jason Bogovich

    April 29th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Building a monopoly is not illegal. Just maintaining it. Apple & Google, join forces. This could be an open web nightmare forming. Microsoft, user centric does not refer strictly to the CIO’s of Fortune 500 companies. You are dealing with USERS now. Please hire a CUO Chief User Officer. He needs to have power to veto even the board and CEO combined.

  9. Jason Bogovich

    April 29th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Sorry, meant to say he/she needs to have the power to veto.

  10. Ha

    April 29th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    next acquisition for MS will be fox entertainment (myspace) next generation of social networking is around the corner, and most of you have missed the boat. Stop standing in the way of the future Yahoo, you can’t do this on your own

  11. Jim

    April 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    this board is only has to be in place to vote for a merger and then they’re out.

  12. Ivan

    April 29th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    These new “Yahoo board” is full of fossils and old farts.

    IMO Microsoft is up to no good if they think they will lead THE takeover of the 21st century with them.

  13. Honkey Tonk

    April 29th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    Typical Silicon Valley appointments. White honkeys. Honk Honk.

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