Groupon Grabs New COO From Google

Daily deals site nabs search giant vice president

It’s been a big day for daily-deal site Groupon. On Thursday morning, General Mills announced the launch of Groupon offers in Minneapolis and San Francisco, marking Groupon’s first partnership with a major consumer packaged-goods company. Then, in the afternoon, Crain’s reported that Groupon has hired Margo Georgiadis, Google’s vice president of global sales planning and technology, as its new chief operating officer.

 

The news comes as the company prepares for an initial public offering later this year and as Google itself launches rival service Google Offers in New York, the Bay Area, and Portland, Ore.

Georgiadis, 47, was Google’s highest-ranking executive in Chicago, where Groupon is based.

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