Teams at Yahoo

Leads Yahoo’s technology internal audit program, including risk assessment, audit planning, advisory projects, testing, workpaper review, reporting, and senior stakeholder presentations. Oversees audits covering cybersecurity, identity and access, cloud security, resilience, data governance, privacy, and AI. Develops auditors, directs co-source providers, enhances AI audit capabilities, and applies analytics and automation. Partners with Technology, Security, Privacy, Engineering, SOX, GRC, and external audit teams.

Lead research and development of generative AI and deep learning models for Yahoo Mail at massive scale. Responsibilities include fine-tuning foundation models, applying LoRA and quantization, knowledge distillation, building evaluation frameworks, developing agent-based systems, creating scalable training workflows, integrating AI development tools, and mentoring researchers and engineers. The role emphasizes NLP, production-grade model optimization, low-latency performance, and strategic AI direction.

Owns Yahoo Everywhere’s business development and distribution partnerships from pipeline creation through negotiation, launch, renewal, and expansion. Sources and closes complex deals across browsers, OEMs, consumer apps, telcos, and other platforms; develops financial models; manages partner performance; and collaborates with product, engineering, design, legal, finance, and analytics. The role also helps build scalable partnership playbooks and leads individual contributors.