Bill Rowley
Senior Director Business Development
Yahoo! Shopping
As senior director of business development of Yahoo! Shopping, Bill Rowley oversees a team of business development and sales programs/marketing professionals responsible for all of the merchant, content and other partner relationships on which Yahoo! Shopping is built.
Under Rowley's guidance, his team has been successful in making Yahoo! Shopping a valuable media asset for major retail brands including Wal-Mart, Dell, FTD and many others. In addition, Rowley was instrumental in the recent transformation of Yahoo! Shopping to a model that combines the best of pure performance/CPC and targeted media.
Prior to joining Yahoo! Shopping in April 2000, Rowley was an associate in the New York office of the law firm of Kirkland and Ellis. Before his legal career, he spent three years with The Boston Company, a financial services firm now owned by Mellon Bank.
Rowley holds a B.S. in economics from Lehigh University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo!'s global network includes 25 world properties and is available in 13 languages.