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Nick Denton,
5:15 PM on Fri Jun 1 2007,
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When we checked Yahoo's management page, we noticed yet another missing face: Lars Rabbe, the Sunnyvale internet company's chief information officer. Without much fanfare, he's moved over to Intuit, the financial software maker. So how bad is the attrition in the company's top ranks?
Take a look at an archived copy of Yahoo's investor relations site from a year ago. Of the 26 execs pictured, eight are gone, or going. Dan Rosensweig, the powerful chief operating officer, went when Sue Decker was put in charge of sales. The Hollywood exec picked by chief exec Terry Semel to take Yahoo into original video, Lloyd Braun, was dismissed. John Marcom, Chris Castro, Phu Hoang are all gone.
Daniel Finnigan left after Hilary Schneider, one of Sue Decker's favorites, took over classifieds. The departure of the troubled internet company's long-time engineering head, Farzeed Nazem, was announced this week. And now Rabbe's disappeared. It's not as though all these losses were tragic, but 30% turnover at the executive level is extraordinarily high: and Yahoo's struggling to find replacements. The company picked a personal friend of Sue Decker for her replacement; and both product and tech divisions, key in the battle with Google, are both without leaders. What a mess. After the jump, the Yahoo facebook, suitably defaced.