Yahoo’s CTO, Farzad Nazem, Resigns

May 30, 2007 at 5:02pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Yahoo! Tech Chief Checks Out from The Street reports that Yahoo’s Chief Technical Officer, Farzad Nazem is leaving Yahoo by June 8th.

In a SEC filing posted today, a separation agreement declared Mr. Nazem will be receive a “lump-sum payment as of the Separation Date equal to” Nazem’s base salary. In addition, his outstanding stock options will continue to vest and shall remain exercisable as per the previous terms. Namez cannot work for Google and Microsoft (those were named specifically) for a three year period.

Postscript: Nazem explains his retirement with, Eleven years, 12,000 Yahoos, and one great ride at the Yahoo Yodel blog.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Yahoo’s CTO, Farzad Nazem, Resigns

Lucky Lester, May 30th, 2007 at 5:23 pm ET:

A three year period seems a little long and I would imagine, unenforceable beyond 1 year.

Good luck wherever you land Mr. Nazem

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