Yvette Martinez-Rea

Yvette Martinez-Rea is a Vice President in Yahoo’s Global Product organization, where she leads the cross-functional change efforts to transform the culture and performance of the organization.  She coaches and advises executives on how to create high-performing teams and works closely with leaders in human resources, engineering, product management, marketing and learning & development to design and implement a comprehensive change strategy to align teams against a common strategy, improve the quality of leadership, create more effective processes and drive more innovation.  Yvette also serves as the executive sponsor for the southern California chapter of Women in Technology, a networking and development organization for Yahoo women in the technology sector. Her previous roles at Yahoo include Chief of Staff for the EVP of the North American region and Senior Director, Business Operations & Strategy for Yahoo’s publisher network.

Prior to joining Yahoo, Yvette was an executive with United Online Inc., managing business and sales operations. She has a B.S. in English Literature and one in Gender Studies from the University of Southern California.   She lives in Southern California with her husband and two children.