Yahoo Poaches Top Google Exec to be New COO

Marissa Mayer just made her biggest hire yet.

Yahoo has poachedHenrique de Castro, a top executive from Google (Mayer's previous company), to serve as its new chief operating officer, the company announcedMonday.In his new role, de Castro will oversee Yahoo's sales, media and business development efforts, and report directly to Mayer.

De Castro played a key role in Google's global sales efforts as the president of global media, mobile and platform at the company. Before that he worked at Dell and McKinsey.For months, rumors have circulated that Mayer wanted to hire away de Castro fill an unspecified position at Yahoo.

Yahoo will reportedly pay de Castro an annual base sa…
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