A Veteran of Search industry, Tim Mayer shines as the director of product management for Yahoo. Search engine industry and his interests in the field came through him as he was a web developer prior joining Yahoo. For any advancing technology or company, product direction is something which is inevitable. Tim Mayer owns the pride of being responsible for the product direction of Yahoo! Search technology.

Along with a BA in English Literature from Hobart College,Geneva of New York, Mayer also owns an MBA from Babson college of Wellesley. The expertise in managerial qualities put him in Thomson & Thomson as the project manager. It is of the SAEGIS and NameStake search platforms. Having acquired good knowledge about the web and its potentials, he worked as a leader in product management and product marketing in the web search division in Inktomi for two years. Having acquired his qualities as a well versed web perihelion, Tim Mayer stepped into FAST web search division as the Vice President and General Manager. He had challenging assignments in the fields of the core search technology and alltheweb.com search destination. Then Overture had Tim Mayer as its Vice President of Web Search Products. He was leading the web search product direction and was successful in managing the major web search affiliate partner relationships. His success and bevy of skills led him to Yahoo with his precious experiences of 10 years in various companies. Search engine and SEO are defined by certain persons, and Tim Mayer ranks in the list.