Kat Downs Mulder, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Yahoo News

Kat Downs Mulder is an award-winning digital news innovator. As SVP and General Manager of Yahoo News, she oversees global product, editorial and strategy across the Yahoo homepage, news app, Yahoo Creators, Games and Weather and content spanning news, entertainment and lifestyle.

Downs Mulder came to Yahoo after 14 years at The Washington Post where she was most recently Chief Product Officer and Managing Editor, bridging newsroom and engineering and driving a strategy aimed at accelerating digital innovation across the company. Previously she was The Post’s first-ever Vice President of Product & Design.

Downs Mulder graduated from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has also taught courses at Georgetown University and Northwestern. Her work has been honored by the Peabody Awards, the Society of Newspaper Design, the Online Journalism Awards and the Malofiej International Infographics Awards. She resides in Washington, DC.