Alfred J. Amoroso

Who is Alfred J. Amoroso?

Alfred J. Amoroso is a board member and former chairman of Yahoo!. He led the special committee set up at Yahoo! to investigate the CEO misstated college degree.

He was formerly President and CEO and a director of Rovi Corporation.

He received both a B.S. in Systems Engineering and an M.S. in Operations Research from the Polytechnic University of Brooklyn, now called Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

In April 2013, Amoroso announced that he was stepping down as Yahoo chairman immediately, and would be leaving the board in June 2013.

He served on the board of Foundry Networks, Inc., a provider of networking hardware, from October 2000 to December 2008 and as chairman from January 2007 to December 2008, when it was sold to Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

Previously, Amoroso was an advisor to Warburg Pincus, a private equity investment firm, from September 2004 to June 2005.

From July 2002 to August 2004, Amoroso was the president, chief executive officer, and vice chairman of Meta Group, an information technology research and advisory firm.