Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO May Make Over $20 Million

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Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) new CEO Scott Thompson could make as much as $20 million.

A document filed about his pay with the SEC shows

The Agreement provides that Mr. Thompson will receive an annual base salary of $1,000,000, subject to annual review, and will be eligible to receive an annual bonus under the Company’s annual Executive Incentive Plan with a target amount of 200% of base salary.

Mr. Thompson will also be eligible to be granted annual equity grants at the time grants are generally made to senior executives as determined by the Compensation Committee. He will receive an annual grant for 2012 with a target value of $11,000,000, which is expected to be granted in February 2012. In addition, he will receive a one-time inducement grant with a value of $5,000,000 at the same time the Company makes its 2012 annual equity grants. Each of these equity grants will be in the same form and on the same terms as the annual grants for 2012 made to the Company’s senior executives generally but in any event will have dividend equivalent rights as noted below.

In addition, to compensate Mr. Thompson for the forfeiture of the value of his cash bonus and equity awards from his previous employer, the Agreement provides for Mr. Thompson to receive a cash bonus of $1,500,000 (the “Make-Whole Cash Bonus”) and a grant of restricted stock units with a grant-date value of $6,500,000 (the “Make-Whole RSUs”).

  

 

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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