Former CBS Interactive Chief Jim Lanzone Named CEO of Yahoo
BY ALEX WEPRIN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Digital Lanzone succeeds Guru Gowrappan, who will become a senior advisor to private equity firm Apollo. Former CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone is returning to the media sector. Lanzone, who has been the CEO of dating app Tinder for the last year, will become CEO of Yahoo, which last week spun out from its former parent company Verizon, and is controlled by the private equity firm Apollo. Lanzone starts at Yahoo on Sept. 27. Guru Gowrappan, who ran the Verizon Media unit for the telecom company, and has been leading Yahoo since its spinoff, announced the news…