Yelp Announces Jason Fennell as Head of Engineering
February 16 2017 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
After Decade with Company, SVP Michael
Stoppelman to Pursue Personal Initiatives
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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