After Decade with Company, SVP Michael Stoppelman to Pursue Personal
Initiatives
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2017--
Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great
local businesses, announced today that longtime senior engineering
manager Jason Fennell has been appointed senior vice president and will
lead the company’s engineering efforts. After more than a decade with
Yelp, current SVP of Engineering Michael Stoppelman will leave the
company in the coming months to pursue personal interests and
initiatives.
Fennell joined Yelp in 2008 as an engineer responsible for search and
data mining. He progressed through increasingly senior roles and was
most recently Vice President of Engineering for Data Mining, with more
than 150 reports spanning Yelp’s algorithmically focused teams as well
as partnerships, data infrastructure and parts of the business owner
product. He has also successfully led engineering recruiting for several
years. Fennell holds a joint Bachelor of Science degree in computer
science and mathematics from Harvey Mudd College, where he is also a
member of the Board of Trustees.
“During his more than eight years at Yelp, Jason has demonstrated both
subject matter expertise and strong leadership skills,” said Yelp CEO
and co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman. “He has also overseen the recruitment
of many of our current engineering team members. Given this and the
large portion of the engineering team he already manages, Jason is an
obvious choice to head our engineering efforts going forward. I’m
confident he will do a great job helping the team accomplish the
important objectives we’ve put in place for 2017 and beyond.”
“I would like to thank Michael for his decade of service to Yelp. He
grew our engineering team more than 10x, put in place the people
structure and technology architecture we rely on today, and developed
processes that steer the team’s planning and execution. Yelp Engineering
has truly become a force to be reckoned with and the whole company
wishes Michael well,” Stoppelman continued.
“I’m thrilled at the opportunity to lead Yelp’s engineering efforts,”
said Fennell. “Michael has built up a world-class engineering
organization and I’m looking forward to taking the helm.”
“I’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished so far and Yelp’s engineering
team has never been in a better place,” said Michael Stoppelman. “Jason
is a longtime Yelp leader who has earned the deep respect of the entire
team. I look forward to watching his success as Yelp embarks on the next
stage of its growth.”
About Yelp
Yelp Inc. (http://www.yelp.com)
connects people with great local businesses. Yelp was founded in San
Francisco in July 2004. Since then, Yelp has taken root in major metros
in more than 30 countries. Approximately 24 million unique devices1
accessed Yelp via the Yelp app, approximately 73 million unique visitors
visited Yelp via desktop computer2 and approximately 65
million unique visitors visited Yelp via mobile website3 on a
monthly average basis during the fourth quarter of 2016. By the end of
the same quarter, Yelpers had written approximately 121 million rich,
local reviews, making Yelp the leading local guide for real
word-of-mouth on everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants
and dentists.
1 Calculated as the number of unique devices accessing the
app on a monthly average basis over a given three-month period,
according to internal Yelp logs.
2 Calculated as the number of “users,” as measured by Google
Analytics, accessing Yelp via desktop computer on a monthly average
basis over a given three-month period.
3 Calculated as the number of “users,” as measured by Google
Analytics, accessing Yelp via the mobile website on a monthly average
basis over a given three-month period.
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