Yahoo just made 5-year company vet Raymie Stata it's new CTO. He will report to Yahoo's new Chief Products Officer, Blake Irving. Raymie came to Yahoo (YHOO) through its 2004 acquisition of Stata Labs. According to Yahoo's press release, Raymie has "led major tech initiatives across Yahoo! from re-imaging our technology stack, to spearheading search and advertising development work and architecting our massive private cloud." This is from Raymie's Wikipedia entry : Raymie Stata is the Chief Architect at Yahoo!. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he founded Stata Laboratories, maker of the Bloomba search-based e-mail client and the SAProxy anti-spam filter [ 1 ], which he sold to Yahoo! in October 2004 [ 2 ].