Facebook Hires Veteran Sales Executive Joanna Shields, Targeting Europe, Middle East and Africa Markets

Facebook has hired another advertising sales executive with Google experience to help it expand abroad, the company announced today: Joanna Shields, most recently known in Silicon Valley for helping to lead rival social network to a $850 million sale to AOL. She’d helped launch a London-based media startup called Shine last fall, and will continue on there as non-executive chairman.