Facebook Poaches Microsoft's Global Ad Chief Everson
Carolyn Everson is leaving a job heading up Microsoft's international advertising division to become vice president of global sales at Facebook.
Carolyn Everson is leaving a job heading up Microsoft’s international advertising division to become vice president of global sales at Facebook.
Everson had only joined Microsoft this past June, and the Redmond, Washington company had put a lot of effort into the recruitmentfor that job, according to All Things Digital. The blog provides some context about how she made the move, quoting Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer from a prepared statement (and when I asked the company for confirmation of this, I received this same quote in reply, only with the request to attribute the words to a spokesperson):
Microsoft was one of our earliest partners and is still one of our most valued.
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