Linda Yaccarino (born 1963) is a media executive from the United States. She was NBCUniversal’s vice president of advertising sales. Elon Musk said on May 12, 2023, that Yaccarino would succeed him as CEO of X Corp. and Twitter.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced on May 12, 2023, that Linda Yaccarino, a former NBC Universal executive, and chair of advertising sales, will take over as the company’s new CEO. Many people were left wondering about Yaccarino’s compensation at the social media behemoth after the news broke.
Meet Linda Yaccarino’s children Matthew and Christiana Madrazo
The new Twitter chief executive has two children, a son named Matthew and a daughter named Christian. She and her husband, Claude Peter Madrazo, have two children.
Matthew Yaccarino is the director of sales at Studio71, and Christian Yaccarino is a pediatric nurse at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Meanwhile, the media executive graduated from Deer Park High School in 1981, according to the Deer Park Library, which Patch confirmed.
She subsequently went to Penn State University and worked for Turner Entertainment for 15 years, transitioning the network’s ad sales business into the digital era, according to Reuters.
Yaccarino spent 15 years with Turner Entertainment, rising to the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer of ad sales, where she was instrumental in establishing creative advertising and marketing solutions.
Yaccarino began working for NBCUniversal in October 2011. She was the head of NBCUniversal’s advertising sales and was instrumental in the introduction of the Peacock streaming service.
