Wednesday, April 15, 2009

SuccessFactors Hires Former Yahoo Exec

SuccessFactors reported Wednesday that former Yahoo! executive Dmitri Krakovsky has come aboard as vice president of product management. At Yahoo!, SuccessFactors noted, Krakovsky was most recently vice president of sponsored search as well as of business and marketplace operations. Before that, SuccessFactors said, he was vice president of product positions for Yahoo!'s Advertiser and Publisher group and Small Business Services. Prior to joining Yahoo! in 2005, Dmitri spent five years at Intuit, where he led the QuickBooks product management team, SuccessFactors added. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Mateo, SuccessFactors provides Web-based employee performance and talent management software.