IGT CEO Patti Hart elected to Yahoo board

International Game Technology Chief Executive Officer Patti Hart was elected to the board of directors of the Internet company Yahoo.

Hart has been CEO of IGT since April 2009. She spent most of her career in the technology industry, serving as an executive and board member of several publicly traded technology providers. Hart joined the Reno-based slot machine manufacturer’s board of directors four years ago.

Intuit CEO Brad Smith was also elected to the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s board along with Hart.

“We look forward to leveraging Brad’s extensive experience with consumer products and the distribution of large scale software solutions over the Internet, and Patti’s deep leadership experience in Internet and technology companies as well as her public company board work,” Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement.

Hart said she was looking forward to sharing her expertise with Yahoo’s executives.