PubCon Dallas 2010 Speaker Biographies

Tim Mayer is responsible for the product direction of Yahoo! Search globally including web search, multimedia search (image, video and audio) and mobile search. Tim brings over 12 years of search experience to Yahoo! with previous roles at Overture, FAST Search & Transfer, Inktomi and Thomson Corp. Tim was previously Vice President of Web Search Products at Overture where he led the product direction of the web search product as well as managing the major web search affiliate partner relationships. Prior to Overture, Tim was Vice President and General Manager of the FAST Web Search division including the core search technology and the alltheweb.com search destination. Before FAST, Tim spent two years leading product management and product marketing in the web search division at Inktomi.

Before entering the web search area, Mayer worked at Thomson & Thomson as the project manager of the SAEGIS and NameStake search platforms. Mayer received a BA in English Literature from Hobart College, Geneva, New York and an MBA from Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.