Who Is Yahoo CMO Kathy Savitt?

And why is she running the media business?

Lost among the eye-popping headlines about the departure of—and cash being handed to—former Yahoo COO Henrique de Castro was this rather innocuous line in an ice-cold memo from CEO Marissa Mayer:

      "I’ve asked Kathy Savitt to lead our media and editorial functions."

That is, until it was announced that Yahoo's editor in chief Jai Singh was leaving the company, per Recode. The obvious speculation was, the editorial guy isn't too pumped to be reporting to the CMO (see Inc.,

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