Valleywag noted earlier this month that Yahoo chief communication officer Chris Castro had been quietly dropped from Yahoo’s management page. Her replacement has now been named, Jill Nash, who starts on January 16 of next year. Nash previously was vice president of global communications for Gap. Her predecessor Castro had held the position for nearly five years, since March 2002.

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