Pete Deemer

VP Product Development, Yahoo!

Pete Deemer is Vice President of Product Development for Yahoo!'s US operations. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Outbound Media at CNET Networks and Senior Vice President of Product Management at ZDNet. Pete was a founder of GameSpot, a Softbank-backed online games information venture that was acquired in 1999 by ZDNet. Pete started his career in book publishing, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Let's Go: Europe travel guide, and later as Publisher of the full Let's Go series. For a number of years Pete has been a member of the adjunct faculty at the Haas School of Business and at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, teaching courses in product development and strategy.

Pete has an undergraduate honors degree from Harvard University.