Google sales exec sandberg to join facebook as coo

In the role, Sandberg will help Facebook scale up its sales, selling, public policy, and other operations, while facilitating the company's global enlargement, a major gross priority for the firm. Facebook recently named Mike potato to lead its global ad sales attempt when it announced the going of chief gross officer Owen Van Natta.

Sandberg unofficially replaces Van Natta according to study, though Facebook wasn't available to confirm that by press time.

Sandberg oversaw Google's online sales transmission channel, which business relationship for the great bulk of the company's AdWords and AdSense sales to small and mid-sized businesses. She also directed sales of its consumer products and its Google Book hunt program.

Her success driving sales of the company's AdSense contextual ad web may be of greatest interest to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In a statement, 23-year-old Zuckerberg highlighted Sandberg's experience "edifice new kinds of ad networks." While Facebook has not yet signaled any particular ad web ambitions, the company could be well positioned to deliver ads based on its users' geographic, demographic, and behavioral data while they're visiting spouse sites.

Zuckerberg and company may also look to Sandberg to generate marketer acceptance of the referral-based advertising merchandise, Social Ads, introduced back in Nov. Anecdotal study suggest the merchandise has struggled to reach consumers in critical numbers typically demanded by large advertisers.

"Sheryl understands Facebook's goal of connecting everyone in the world and is passionate about edifice a concern that will enable us to realize this missionary post," Zuckerberg added.

Sandberg joined Google six years ago after workings the U.S. Exchequer Department, where she was chief of staff during Bill Clinton's administration. Earlier that she was an economic expert with The World Bank, where her work focused on addressing leprosy in India. She's on the board of Google.org/the Google Foundation, and also holds board positions at ONE Campaign, The Ad Council, and eHealthInsurance.

When she starts on March 24, Sandberg will be the first woman to obtain a senior executive role at Facebook. She'll report directly to Zuckerberg.

In a statement attributed to Global Sales SVP Omid Kordestani, Google said it promoted David Fischer to replace Sandberg as a VP of online sales and operations.

"Sheryl was a valued member of the Google team and we wish her well in her new endeavors," said the statement. "We have a deep management bench at Google and are delighted that David Fischer, who has been such an important part of the growth of this world-wide organization, will assume responsibility for Google's global online sales and operations."