Who Will Be The Next Yahoo CEO? Jerry Yang Departs

Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo and its CEO since June 2007, is stepping down from the Chief Executive spot as soon as a yet-to-be-named successor is appointed. Yang will be staying with the company in the role of “Chief Yahoo” and maintaining a seat on the company’s board of directors.

In a statement released this evening, company Chairman Roy Bostock says: “Jerry and the Board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level. We are deeply grateful to Jerry for his many contributions as CEO over the past 18 months, and we are pleased that he plans to stay actively involved at Yahoo! as a key executive and member of the Board.”

So now the question has been asked, who is going to be the next Yahoo CEO?

Who else is reporting Yang’s departure, Mashable, RWW, Cnet, Wired, Paidcontent, Profy, Valleywag, Gigaom and ParisLemon.