Tim Morse

This gent's already had a brief fling with the corner office at Yahoo. Meet Tim Morse, Yahoo's chief financial officer who served as interim CEO for several months after Carol Bartz was fired in September 2011 until Thompson came on board to start this year. He's got some diverse experience -- before joining Yahoo in 2009, he spent two years at chipmaker Altera and 15 years at General Electric. Third Point seems OK with him, and with Rosenzweig, at least in the short term. On May 9, the investor group urged Yahoo to appoint either one -- immediately -- as an interim CEO to replace Thompson.