(CNN) — Yahoo has hired away Tinder’s top executive to become its new chief executive officer.
Apollo Management Group, which recently bought the ailing search engine for $5 billion, announced Friday that Jim Lanzone will be Yahoo’s new CEO as of September 27. He’s succeeding Guru Gowrappan, who has led Yahoo since 2018 and will now shift to a senior adviser role.
The move comes just four months after Verizon announced it would sell Yahoo to Apollo for $5 billion.
Lanzone has been the…
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