A string of defections from Google to Facebook
May 12, 2008A string of senior Google staff have left the company in last few months to join Facebook. This might just be a coincidence, albeit a worrying one for the search engine giant. Elliot Schrage, formerly with Google, has just joined Facebook to take up a crucial position as the global communications & public affairs head. His role will be critical to the business strategy of the popular social networking site.
Mr Schrage is not the only high-profile person who has left the search engine giant to join Facebook. Those who have jumped ship to Facebook from Google in the last few months comprise leading executives like Sheryl Sandberg, now the network’s chief operating officer. Sheryl was Google’s vice president of global sales.
Other staffers from Google to join Facebook are Ethan Beard, a former director of social media (now director of business development) and Ben Ling, now director of platform product marketing. Gideon Yu was formerly the chief financial officer at YouTube. He left shortly after Google acquired it (in 2006) and has also moved to Facebook to become the CFO there. The networking firm has also managed to poach Josef Desimone, a Google executive chief, apart from many other senior engineers and managers in recent months.
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