Former YAHOO Senior VP Brad Garlinghouse has reemerged and will be leading AOL's Silicon Valley operations, with the title ofPresident of Internet and Mobile Communications and reporting directly to Tim Armstrong, a position he's very well qualified for.
What was very interesting in reading the announcement was his most recent role with Silver Lake Partners saying "Garlinghouse was most recently at Silver Lake Partners as an in-house Senior Advisor." That indicates that the very savvy and shrewd Garlinghouse likely played a role in the Skype take-away from eBay.
More importantly, given Garlinghouse has a good handle on VoIP and early stage companies, it wouldn't surprise me to see him dabbling in a few new startups as part of his new role at AOL has him also as the West Coast lead for AOL Ventures.
Om Malik's summary gives a very good chronology of Garlinghouse's career, though he was not part of the DialPad team which went onto start GrandCentral, though Brad did lead Yahoo's acquisition of Dialpad that brought over GrandCentral founders Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet.
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