Yet another Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board member is leaving. The company says that billionaire Ron Burkle who has served on the company board since 2001 won’t stand for re-election so that he can “devote more time to his other business interests.” Burkle’s departure means that a fourth of Yahoo’s 12-member board will have now left since Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was hired last January; Maggie Wildreotter, the CEO of telecom firm Frontier Communications, stepped down at the end of the year, while investor Carl Icahn left in October. So far, Bartz has made only one appointment, picking former Ernst & Young partner Sue James to fill Wildreotter’s seat. We asked Yahoo whether it intends to replace Burkle. The company’s response: “This is not an immediate move. He is on the Board until the next election.”
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