Yahoo Hires Morse As CFO

By Matt McGee

Published: June 11, 2009 at 5:25 pm

Yahoo has announced the hiring of Tim Morse as Chief Financial Officer. He’ll report directly to CEO Carol Bartz. Morse most recently was CFO at Altera, and before that served as CFO for General Electric Plastics.

According to Yahoo’s SEC filing, Morse gets a base salary of $500,000, a signing bonus of $500,000, and has a “target bonus” of another $500,000.

Morse will officially join Yahoo on June 17, and take over the CFO position on July 1.

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Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.