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PROFILE: Portal player - Fru Hazlitt, Director for sales and marketing, Yahoo! Europe
For anyone looking at the financial pages of late, the post of
sales and marketing director at Yahoo! must seem like one of the least
attractive jobs in the country. The one-time darling of the dotcom world
has seen the departure of European chief Fabiola Arredondo, a shock
profits warning, and, more recently, the departure of chief sales and
marketing officer Anil Singh.
I met Yahoo!'s European sales and marketing chief Fru Hazlitt in a
garish yellow and purple meeting room at the company's offices, after
Arredondo's departure but before the events that subsequently caused
such furore.
Reassessing the interview in the light of these developments, Hazlitt
still comes across as enthusiastic and engaging. While cautious about
the prospects for dotcoms, she is clearly up for the challenge.
Hazlitt is well-known for both her tardiness as well as her
enthusiasm.
So I breathe a sigh of relief when she bounds in just a couple of
minutes late. 'My problem is that I try to do too many things - I never
say no to anything,' she says by way of apology.
'My ex-boss at Capital said one of the things he'd miss most about me is
the 15 minutes at the beginning of a meeting when I don't tur
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Fru Hazlitt resigns from Virgin
The chief executive of Virgin Radio Fru Hazlitt has resigned from her position with immediate effect. Her replacement will be Programme Director Paul Jackson. A special report in the FT in December predicted the move, when Hazlitt announced herself out of the running for the top job at SMG.
It is thought the move is ahead of something much larger within the company – the merger of SMG and UTV being the obvious reason. A merged company is likely to be managed by UTV's chief executive John McCann, leaving no leadership position of Fru.
Fru Hazlitt joined SMG in August 2005 as Chief Executive of Radio from Yahoo! UK and Ireland, where she was Managing Director.
Paul Jackson has been Virgin Radio’s Programme Director since 2001, prior to which he was Regional Programme Director for Capital Radio. Since joining Virgin Radio, Paul has revamped the station’s music policy and programme line-up and was responsible for attracting big name presenters such as Christian O’Connell and Suggs to the station.
Commenting on today’s announcement, Donald Emslie, Acting Chief Executive of SMG, said:
“I’m sorry to see Fru go. She’s been an inspirational leader for Virgin Radio and her knowledge of the radio and online world has tak
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Fru Hazlitt discern shock abdication from Virginal Radio
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