Yippy, Inc. announced that Mr. John P. Macartney, age 50, was elected to the company's Board of Directors by an unanimous Board vote to fill a vacancy. Mr. Macartney is currently the Chief Scientist of Cengage Learning, a leading provider of educational content, technology and services for higher education, K-12, professional and library markets worldwide. Throughout his career, John has worked with startups and large enterprises as a key problem solver with expertise in all search engine technologies, machine learning and data mining solutions, including entity extraction and categorization.

John Macartney will be filling the board seat previously held by Morton "Mort" Fink, 82, who recently resigned from the Board without disagreement.