Stephen Taylor to lead Yahoo! search in Europe

Overture Services and Yahoo! Europe have today announced the expansion of Stephen Taylorís role to Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Yahoo! Search and Overture Europe. Stephen was previously Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Overture Europe and takes on his additional responsibilities for Yahoo! Search in Europe with immediate effect.



Aligning the overall responsibility for Overture Europe and Yahoo! Search is another step towards integrating the two companies in Europe, in order to provide the most comprehensive range of search services to users, advertisers and partners.

In the newly-created pan-European role of Regional Vice President ñ Yahoo! Search, Stephen will have overall responsibility for Yahoo!ís product innovation in search and for future growth within this business unit. The creation of this new role reflects Yahoo!ís commitment to provide innovative, useful Search technologies that enable people to find, use, share, and expand knowledge. Stephen will work closely with Yahoo! Search in Sunnyvale and report to Dominique Vidal, Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Yahoo! Europe.

As Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Overture Europe, Stephen will continue to determine the companyís strategy for Europe, oversee all European operations and the rollout of the multi-product portfolio to all the Overture Europe countries. As before, Stephen will report to Brian Steel, Overtureís International President.

Dominique Vidal, Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Yahoo! Europe commented, The creation of this new role marks an important step towards the ongoing synergy of Overture and Yahoo! Search in Europe and reflects Yahoo!ís ongoing commitment to introducing the next generation of search technology and products for advertisers, publishers and users alike.

Brian Steel, Overture International President commented, ìIn his two years with Overture Europe, Stephen has played a key role in driving the organizationís phenomenal growth and, more recently, in managing the integration with Yahoo! Europe. He is ideally suited for this combined role and I am pleased that we will continue to benefit from his ongoing leadership in this key market.î

Stephen Taylor, Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Yahoo! Search and Overture Europe, added, ìThe combination of Yahoo! and Overture created the worldís largest and most effective online advertising company and one of the goals of this combination has always been to offer the most comprehensive range of products and services to businesses both large and small.In this new role, I look forward to moving further towards this goal and to providing ever more useful and relevant results for users of both sponsored and algorithmic search.ì

Stephen joined Overture in April 2003 as Commercial Director. During his tenure, the company changed from a single to a multi-product organisation and grew from serving three European countries to a total of thirteen. In March 2004, Stephen was named Managing Director of Overture Europe, and then Regional Vice President & Managing Director, Overture Europe in April 2005.

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