Meisel to Leave Reorganized Yahoo! Search Group

Ted Meisel, the head of Yahoo! Search Marketing, will leave the company by the end of 2005, CEO Terry Semel announced.

At the same time, Semel said the search and media ad sales units of Yahoo! were undergoing reorganization into one consolidated ad sales unit. David Karnstedt, senior vice president and general manager of Yahoo! Search marketing, will now report to Greg Coleman, executive vice president of global ad sales.