Nationality American Children Alaska Cahan Employer Yahoo! | Spouse Alice Larkin (m. 2002) Name Adam Cahan | |
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Interview with adam cahan head of mobile products for yahoo
Adam Cahan (born December 30, 1971) is a consumer technology executive who currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Mobile and Emerging Products for Yahoo!, where he oversees the company's global mobile effort. In this role, he is responsible for leading product, engineering and design for Yahoo’s mobile products, Flickr and Smart TV.
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- Interview with adam cahan head of mobile products for yahoo
- Social TV Book An Interview with IntoNows Adam Cahan
- Background and personal life
- References
Cahan joined Yahoo in April 2011 through the acquisition of his start-up IntoNow, a patented consumer application. When Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo in 2012, she appointed Cahan to lead the company’s mobile initiatives, and he grew the division from 50 employees to over 500. Since the company's mobile unit went live in October 2012, Yahoo has refreshed its Flickr and Mail apps, introduced News Digest, and bought nearly 40 companies. As of June 2014, Yahoo Mobile had 430 million monthly users.
Prior to building IntoNow, Cahan's first start-up company was Auditude, a video infrastructure and ad serving company, which was later acquired by Adobe.
Cahan began his career as an associate producer and wildlife filmmaker for National Geographic Television, based in Zaire, Africa, from 1993 to 1996. He later became an executive vice president of strategy and business operations at MTV Networks, and held leadership roles at Google, McKinsey & Company and NBC Universal. At Google, he was responsible for product and market entry across online branding, video, wireless, offline advertising and international, which included China, Japan, Korea. He holds two technology patents.
Social TV Book: An Interview with IntoNow's Adam Cahan
Background and personal life
A New York native, Cahan holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School with Beta Gamma Sigma Honors. His father, Dr. Amos Cahan, was a hematologist and the owner of Knickerbocker Biologicals, a medical diagnostics company that became part of Pfizer.
He married Samantha Kluge, the daughter of billionaire telecommunications executive John Werner Kluge, on April 20, 1997. The marriage was annulled less than a year later. He then married Alice Larkin, a British fashion designer, in 2002. They have two daughters. On June 25, 2015, he welcomed daughter Alaska with Russian model Anne Vyalitsyna.
Cahan lives in San Francisco and serves on the board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.