Employee Turnover

Soul Searcher

Salim Ismail

Title: Head of Brickhouse

Responsibilities: Oversaw Yahoo's innovation factory; helped spearhead Fire Eagle, a service that shares user-location information with approved applications.

Departure Date: February, 2008

On leaving Yahoo: "Well, after a bunch of soul-searching, I'm leaving Yahoo," he wrote on his blog."I have a couple of startups that I want to look at and I took the opportunity to take a decent package."