Timothy R. Morse was the CEO of Ten-X. Previously Morse was the interim

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of the Internet services company,

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. He was named after Carol Bartz lost her position as CEO on September 6, 2011. In January 2012, Yahoo picked Scott Thompson as the new CEO. Morse was CFO prior to his appointment.

Education

Morse is a graduate of Boston College

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, from which he obtained a bachelor's degree in finance and operations and strategic management.Timothy R. Morse
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Business career

Morse began his career at

General Electric General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable ene ...

, and worked in various divisions: GE Plastics, GE Appliances and GE Capital in North America, Europe and Asia. He became general manager of business development for General Electric Plastics before being appointed its chief financial officer. After his departure from GE, Morse was the chief financial officer of

Altera Altera Corporation was a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1983 and acquired by Intel in 2015. The main product lines from Altera were the flagship Stratix series, mid-ran ...

. He was hired, by then CEO Carol Bartz, and was appointed Chief Financial Officer for Yahoo! in July 2009. He served as Yahoo!'s interim

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(CEO) for roughly four months (September 2011 to January 2012) after the board relieved Carol Bartz of her position, and then returned to his previous position as

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. On September 25, 2012 it was announced that Morse will leave

and will be replaced by Ken Goldman on October 22, 2012. After leaving Yahoo! he joined San Mateo-based Adap.tv. In June 2015, Auction.com named Morse as the company's CEO.

References

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