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.
Where was Linda Yaccarino born and where did she grow up?
The media executive was born in Long Island, New York, and raised in Deer Park. She is of Italian ancestry. She earned a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications from Pennsylvania State University’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications in 1985.
Yaccarino 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.
