Gideon Yu

Gideon Yu is the former CFO of Facebook the popular social networking website. Before joining Facebook Yu was treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance for Yahoo! where he executed over 30 acquisitions or investments for Yahoo, including Alibaba, Taobao, Overture, Inktomi, Flickr, del.icio.us and over $5 billion of capital markets transactions. Yu was also CFO of YouTube where he negotiated the video sharing website's acquisition by Google j... more

Gideon Yu is the former CFO of Facebook the popular social networking website. Before joining Facebook Yu was treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance for Yahoo! where he executed over 30 acquisitions or investments for Yahoo, including Alibaba, Taobao, Overture, Inktomi, Flickr, del.icio.us and over $5 billion of capital markets transactions. Yu was also CFO of YouTube where he negotiated the video sharing website's acquisition by Google just a month after joining, staying at Google until his move to Facebook in late August 2007. less