Categories: OLD Media Moves

NerdWallet hires COO, VP of talent

Nerdwallet.com, a three-year-old personal finance website, has hired two executives to help manage its growth.

The San Francisco-based company has hired Dan Yoo to be its chief operating officer. Yoo comes from LinkedIn, where he led the company’s performance management, strategic initiatives and analytics.

Yoo helped LinkedIn’s annual revenues grow to more than $1.5 billion from $120 million and increase its members to 275 million from 45 million.

Meanwhile, NerdWallet has hired Flo Thinh as its vice president of talent. Thinh is one of the top recruiters in Silicon Valley.

Thinh built and led the recruiting team that scaled social-gaming startup Zynga to more than 3,000 employees from 40 in just four years. After Zynga, Thinh joined Khosla Ventures as an operating partner.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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