Icahn’s Yahoo! Board Announced
May 18, 2008 by tim · Leave a Comment
Latest news in the saga for dominance of Yahoo!:
Carl Icahn has announced the nominees for his board of Yahoo!:
Mark Cuban – Sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo! in 1999 for $8.1 billion in stock.
John Chapple – Former CEO of Nextel Partners, with a telecommunications investment fund.
Lucian Bebchuk – Harvard Law professor and director of Harvard’s program on corporate governance
Edward Meyer – Former CEO of Grey Global Group, the worldwide advertising agency.
Keith Meister – Icahn’s own vice chairman. He was also added to Motorola’s board last month as part of the agreement to avoid a proxy battle with Icahn.
Brian Posner - Former CEO of asset management firm, Clearbridge Advisors LLC.
Adam Dell - brother of Michael, the founder of Dell Computers. He was previously a major shareholder of HotJobs.com, which Yahoo! bought for $439 million in 2002.
Robert Shaye – founder of New Line Cinema and still co-CEO.
Frank Biondi Jr – Former CEO of Viacom Inc. Also a director of Amgen, Cablevision Systems, Hasbro, The Bank of New York Mellon and Seagate Technology.
And the tenth member:
Carl Icahn himself – 72-year-old investor, and corporate shaker.







