Google Loses PR Chief Elliot Schrage To Facebook

It’s going to be harder for Google to spin they haven’t lost their mojo to Facebook with news of the latest exec to depart the Big G — that being chief spinmaster Ellliot Schrage bailing from being vice president of global communications at Google to become VP of communications and public policy at Facebook. Both […]

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It’s going to be harder for Google to spin they haven’t lost their mojo to
Facebook with news of the latest exec to depart the Big G — that being chief
spinmaster Ellliot Schrage bailing from being vice president of global
communications at Google to become VP of communications and public policy at
Facebook.

Both

AllThingsD
and

Valleywag
have news of the move. AllThingsD has a short memo from Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg to employees there about the hiring. It also reports that
Schrage will report to Sheryl Sandberg, who jumped from Google to become COO at
Facebook.

Be sure to see my
Megachart & Analysis: Google Executive Management Changes, 2000-2008
post
from last month for a recap of all key executive departures from Google going
back to when it began. Schrage
joined Google in
October 2005, filling the spot left vacant when marketing maestro Cindy
McCaffrey became the first exec to take her chips and leave Google in December
2004.

For more, see related discussion
on Techmeme.


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