Yahoo\u2019s short-lived interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, who was replaced by the board two weeks ago by a bright shiny blonde from Google, said Monday that he\u2019s leaving the company. <\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t say if he had a destination. <\/p>\n
He wasn\u2019t expected to stay after Marissa Mayer got there. <\/p>\n
As CEO Levinsohn succeeded in defusing the ill-considered infringement suit his fired predecessor Scott Thompson lodged against Facebook and calmed the water roiled by Thompson\u2019s sudden departure caused by phony academic credentials. <\/p>\n
The board, led by proxy fight victor Dan Loeb, who discovered Thompson\u2019s fib, traded the media and advertising executive for a technologist it\u2019s expecting to make Yahoo\u2019s web sites more relevant. <\/p>\n
Levinsohn, who worked at Fox Interactive Media where he bought MySpace and cut a huge ad deal with Google as well as HBO and AltaVista, joined Yahoo in late 2010 to run its media sites and Americas ad sales. <\/p>\n
Yahoo and Mayer acknowledged his contributions. Marissa wished him well and said in an e-mail that wended its way to All Things Digital that he \u201chelped keep the company moving, closed important deals, and assembled a very talented team.\u201d<\/p>\n