A top Yahoo marketing and media executive thought to be a close confidante of CEO Marissa Mayer said Friday she is leaving the company.
Kathy Savitt, who had dual roles as chief marketing officer and head of media, is leaving to join startup movie studio STX Entertainment.
Love and gratitude for 3 amazing years . Excited and humbled to soon join STX Digital to build an audience-first content force.
Savitt was the first exec to be hired by Mayer when she became CEO in 2012.
Above: A Yahoo gumball machine is at doorway of Yahoo s corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale. (LiPo Ching/Bay Area News Group)
