Facebook Hires Google's Head Of Latin America Sales

Facebook has scored a major victory in the recruitment battle for top talent by luring Google's top executive in Latin America, Alexandre Hohagen, to become vice president for sales in the region.

Facebook has scored a major victory in the recruitment battle for top talent by luring Google’s top executive in Latin America, Alexandre Hohagen to become vice president for sales in the region.

The social network had announced the hire in a press release distributed in Hohagen’s native country of Brazil last week, and the New York Times wrote the first English language story about it today.

Hohagen had helped build Google’s Latin American presence over the past six years, and has served as a general manager in Brazil before becoming the head of the search engine’s entire operation in Latin America.

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