Vivek Sharma has left Yahoo! , according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, who cites “numerous sources.”

Sharma joined Yahoo! in 2009 after eight years as a McKinsey & Co. consultant. For the past year, he’s been general manager of Yahoo! Mail and Messenger, leading a team of 300 product managers, designers, and engineers, according to his LinkedIn profile. Mail and Messenger are two of Yahoo!’s more popular products. Mail, in particular, served some 281 million accounts as of December.

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