Yahoo hired XGoogler Bernardo Hernández González, for leading photo-sharing unit Flickr. He earlier ran his own Zagat property at Google. He will join another Mayer loyalist, Dylan Casey, who came to Yahoo from Path several months ago and previously was a XGoogler.
The news came after Brett Wayn resigned from his role at Flickr last week with reasons not disclosed. This could be Mayer on Yahoo’s new innovation push as she added González known to be one of his close as Google.
Hernández, has strong online product skills, an unusual and wide-ranging resume, as both an exec with previous jobs as AOL etc and an investor at StepOne, Idealista.com, FloresFrescas.com and 11870.com.