Yahoo CEO grew up in Wisconsin

Published July 17, 2012 2:28pm ET



WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Yahoo has tapped another Wisconsin native to lead the Internet company.

Thirty-seven-year-old Marissa Mayer was an executive at Google before she accepted the challenge of trying to turn Yahoo around. Mayer grew up in Wausau and graduated from Wausau West High School. She becomes the second Wisconsin woman to try to revive Yahoo. Carol Bartz was CEO of Yahoo from 2009 until September of last year. Bartz grew up on a farm near Alma in western Wisconsin.

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