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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Former Yahoo Biz Ops SVP McCombs to Tumri as CFO

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Yahoo’s ranks keep fanning out all over the tech scene.

This time it is former top-ranking Yahoo exec Jeff McCombs, who has signed on to be CFO of Tumri, an online advertising start-up.

Backed by Accel Partners and others, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Tumri is trying to crack into the online ad space with what it calls “dynamic and intelligent display advertising solutions.”

McCombs is a big hire for a small company like Tumri. He was SVP of Business Operations at Yahoo and had also served as chief of staff to former president, Sue Decker.

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