Madhu Yarlagadda

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Madhu Yarlagadda has been with Yahoo since 1999 and has held several key leadership positions. Currently he is the VP of Engineering for Yahoo Messenger where he is responsible for real-time communication including Yahoo messenger, Voice (VoIP) and Video. He is in charge of identifying, designing and developing next generation, real-time communication applications and platforms. In this role, he was instrumental in enabling Yahoo messenger to become the largest messaging client in the US, surpassing AIM, MSN Messenger and GoogleTalk.

Before taking on his current role, Madhu was the GM for Yahoo mobile (1999 - 2003). He was responsible for the development, operations and management of Yahoo Mobile strategy to extend Yahoo beyond the desktop.

Throughout his early career, Yarlagadda has held various senior technical and management positions at OcTel Communication Corporation, acquired by Lucent Technologies, and at OnLive Technologies where he worked on the world’s first virtual worlds, VoIP and real time web applications. He holds more than 15 patents spanning numerous engineering innovations.

Prior to joining Yahoo, Madhu served as founder, president and CEO of MyQuest, Inc., a real-time messaging company acquired by Yahoo in 1999. Earlier in his career, Madhu also served as founder and CTO of ISSG, an enhanced telecommunications application provider. While at ISSG, Madhu was responsible for establishing successful relationships with major telecommunications providers such as Lucent Technologies, and he helped develop a large customer base which includes Airtouch, SBC, AT&T, Bell Atlantic, SNET, USWest, Korea Telecom, Centennial, Global Telecom and Telesp.