Jessica Alba, LionTree’s Arie Burkoff Among Yahoo’s New Board Members –

Yahoo on Monday named six new members to its board of directors, including The Honest Company founder and actress Jessica Alba and LionTree founder Arie Burkoff.

Other future board members include Fuad Elnagar, CEO of Array and former chief strategy officer at CBS Interactive; Michael Keeves, CEO of K5 Global; Cynthia Marshall, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks; and Katie Stanton, founder and general partner of Moxxie Ventures.

“As we enter the new era of Yahoo, building a strong board of directors with strategic knowledge from a diverse industry will lead to greater growth, innovation and scale,” said Jim Lanzone, CEO of Yahoo. “I look forward to working with this group to continue creating and innovating for our millions of customers, advertisers and media partners around the world.

The board appointments come a year after Verizon sold Yahoo to AOL and Verizon Media Assets to Apollo Global Management for $5 billion, retaining a 10% stake. Last September, Lanzone joined Yahoo as the CEO of Tinder.

The six newly appointed board members will be joined by Chairman Reid Reiman, Lanzone and representatives from Apollo and Verizon.

“We are pleased to welcome these high-profile executives to the Board of Directors of Yahoo, who we consider to be testament to Yahoo’s leadership in providing an unprecedented scale of consumer products and digital media solutions and unprecedented capabilities. precedents. vision of the future,” said Rayman. Said a companion of Apollo. “I look forward to working with this impressive board to help Yahoo in this exciting next phase of growth.