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Gilt Groupe Snags New Chief Marketing Officer from JustFabulous

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 3 at 9:20 am PT

Closely following dozens of layoffs, the Gilt Groupe has appointed Elizabeth Francis to the position of chief marketing officer. Francis will be responsible for acquiring new customers and customer retention across the company’s flash sales sites and full-priced apparel and food sites. Francis takes over the role from Alexis Maybank, a founder of Gilt, who will resume the position of chief strategy officer. Prior to Gilt, Francis was the chief marketing officer at Intelligent Beauty and president of JustFabulous, an online fashion and accessories brand that recently raised $33 million in capital.

Can This Broken Robot Help Save Cisco Systems?

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 22 at 9:00 pm PT

A new advertising campaign aims to help Cisco Systems reintroduce itself to its customers, and remind them what it does best.

Léo Makes It Official: SAP's Bill Wohl Joins Hewlett-Packard

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 7, 2011 at 4:19 pm PT

HP’s CEO brings on a trusted hand as chief communications officer, and launches a search for a new chief marketing officer. Want memos? We got ’em!

AOL: More Org Chart Shuffles Coming; So Are Ad Dollars. But Mum on Microsoft.

Peter Kafka in Media on September 21, 2009 at 8:15 am PT

CEO Tim Armstrong says he’s still overhauling the Internet company in advance of its spinoff from Time Warner, but he has hopeful noises to make about ad sales. He has nothing, however, to say about chats with Microsoft.

One Last Yahoo Reorg Missive: Bartz Tells Employees What She Already Said. Again.

Kara Swisher in News on February 26, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Goodness gracious, make it stop! You must know by now how much BoomTown loves internal Yahoo memos. But this is getting ridiculous. It’s been like a flash flood after a long drought at Sunnyvale HQ today, as Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz turns on the firehose of a whole lot of communicating. “I know you guys have reorg fatigue,” wrote Bartz in the latest email to employees about the management reorganization finally announced this morning. Also memo fatigue at All Things Digital HQ, if you can believe it.