Ross Levinsohn is a well-known American executive and businessman who has become the interim CEO of Yahoo! after Marissa Mayer’s decision to leave.

Sports Illustrated CEO Levinsohn was Vice President of News at NPR, the Executive Vice President and Chief Media Officer at Guggenheim Digital Media, and CEO of About.com before being tapped by Yahoo in 2016.

Ross attended Santa Monica High School and graduated in 1987. He was interested in radio & television as a teenager and was making his own radio station with a friend in their bedroom. Ross is married to Susan Levinsohn (née Davis). He has two children, Jack and Nadine.

Sports Illustrated CEO Levinsohn has worked for various companies including Yahoo!, Guggenheim Digital Media, Walt Disney Company, Google, Sumner Redstone’s National Amusements Inc. (now Viacom), NBCUniversal, New York Times and the Walt Disney Company.

In 2011, Levinsohn was hired by National Amusements Inc. in a joint venture with Comcast to run its online video service, known as CinemaNow. In 2012, Levinsohn was given oversight of all digital media platforms at the company. By 2013 he had been promoted to Chairman and CEO of the company’s digital media division. After a $40 million loss in 2013, the digital media division was sold to Guggenheim Digital Media for $80 million in 2014. In 2015, Levinsohn and Guggenheim Digital Media announced plans to merge their companies and fold Together. he would run both of the companies. Levinsohn was fired from the company on November 2015 by Steven Fadell due to a conflict with John Jannuzzi and Henriette Griffith, who had been hired to run Guggenheim Digital Media’s newly acquired business.

In 2012, Guggenheim Digital Media was acquired by Disney for $950 million. After Levinsohn was fired from the company, it was announced that he would take over as CEO of the digital media division at Disney/ABC Television Group when Bob Iger took over from Michael Eisner as CEO.

Now known as Dermot Capital Management, Inc., Levinsohn founded this company in 1996.