Yahoo has named global tech veteran Valeri Liborski as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO), replacing Aengus McClean who will be retiring at the end of the year. McClean has held the CTO role since Yahoo's spinout from Verizon in 2021.

Liborski joins the business from HelloFresh, where he spent the last two and a half years as CTO, following a decade at Amazon, which included a five year stint as VP of Technology for the EU region. Earlier in his career, he spent 12 years in engineering roles for Microsoft.

In the new role, Liborski will lead Yahoo's global engineering team and focus on innovation and advancing the company's investments in artificial intelligence. He will report directly to Yahoo's CEO, Jim Lanzone.

“It’s an understatement to say that technology is the lifeblood of our company, and Val’s track record of building great teams to create and manage powerful products and platforms, at the kind of scale in which we operate, made him stand out as the right person to lead Yahoo’s engineering organisation into the future,” said Lanzone. "We thank Aengus for his incredible contributions to Yahoo and we wish him the best in this next chapter.”

Liborski said:“Yahoo was one of my first gateways to the internet and continues to be a go-to source in my daily life,” said Liborski. “I’m excited to contribute to such an iconic brand and work with the team to develop technology that touches the lives of hundreds of millions of people.”