10 posts and columns on David Fischer

Exclusive: Microsoft Mulls Legally Poking Facebook Over Ad Talent Raid

in News on March 2, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT

Microsoft–furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook–has been considering a wide range of options, including legal action to block the move, according to sources close to the situation. While it might not come to that, tensions between the two companies, who have partnered closely in the past, are running high over the hiring of Carolyn Everson. She had been head of global ad sales at Microsoft and has been hired to be VP of global sales at Facebook.

Exclusive: Facebook Grabs Microsoft Global Ad Head Carolyn Everson

in News on February 15, 2011 at 4:19 pm PT

Apparently, it’s not only in Google’s pond where Facebook fishes for talent–the social networking giant has recruited Microsoft’s global advertising head Carolyn Everson as one of its top sales execs. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the hiring, after a query by BoomTown. The move will surely cause some tensions with the software giant, which is both a prominent partner of and investor in Facebook, especially since Everson was only hired at Microsoft last June after a long search.

Exclusive: Former Facebook Ad Head Mike Murphy Takes Senior Advisor Role at Zynga

in News on January 23, 2011 at 7:02 pm PT

Mike Murphy–Facebook’s first head of advertising sales, who left the social networking giant in October to take some personal time off–seems done with relaxing. He is now taking a part-time, but significant, role at online gaming phenom Zynga to help formulate its advertising strategy. In addition, though, Murphy is also close to formalizing an additional consulting relationship with Facebook.

Facebook's Longtime Ad Sales Head Mike Murphy to Depart Company

in News on October 26, 2010 at 7:51 am PT

Mike Murphy, Facebook’s VP of Global Sales, is leaving the company. Facebook said the well-known advertising exec decided to step down in order to take some time off, which Murphy said was the case in an interview with BoomTown.

Exclusive: Facebook Snatches Another Google Ad Exec (This Is Getting Ridonkulous!)

in News on September 10, 2010 at 9:20 pm PT

Facebook–in its ongoing quest to poach as many Google execs as possible–has hired a well-regarded and upcoming ad sales and operations exec, Emily White, away from the search giant. White once worked for former Google exec David Fischer, who bolted to the social networking giant in late March to take a job as VP of Advertising and Global Operations. She will work for him again, this time running the business and monetization side of local on a global basis.

A "Mean" Video: BoomTown Annoys a Cavalcade of Facebook Execs at f8!

in News on April 22, 2010 at 7:15 am PT

Here is a video BoomTown did yesterday at Facebook’s bustling f8 developers conference in San Francisco. At a press conference at the Silicon Valley social networking event, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg–trying mightily not to answer a question I proffered about the competitive landscape–said I wrote “mean” posts. Oh, Mark, man up or get a big dose of a sense of humor from your delightful sister, Randi. In any case, I hope Zuckerberg enjoys these interviews I did with many of his minions at f8.

Facebook Lands Former Bebo CEO (And ex-Googler) Joanna Shields

in Media on April 1, 2010 at 2:06 am PT

Facebook is beefing up its European sales team with a big name in social networking circles: It is adding former Bebo CEO Joanna Shields, who will runs sales and business development in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Exclusive: Facebook Poaches Yet Another Major Googler–This Time, Ad Exec David Fischer [UPDATED]

in News on March 26, 2010 at 8:19 am PT

David Fischer–who was VP of Global Online Sales & Operations for Google and more recently was heading up its local efforts–is taking a job at Facebook as VP of Advertising and Global Operations, according to sources. The move by Fischer–which was also just announced internally at both Google and Facebook and has just been confirmed by Facebook–is yet another in a series of top execs at the search giant to defect to the fast-growing social networking site. And it will surely raise tensions between the companies, which are increasingly becoming rivals in several major Internet arenas and opposing poles of power in Silicon Valley.

Google Still Shuffling Sales Force: “Self-Serve” Exec David Fischer Steps Aside

in Media on September 2, 2009 at 9:53 am PT

Five months after Google sales boss Tim Armstrong left for AOL, his old company is still reshaping its sales group. The latest move: David Fischer, who ran the company’s core self-serve ad business, is going on sabbatical later this month and will return to a different post. Newish sales boss Nikesh Arora says he hasn’t found a successor for Fischer and will step into his shoes in the meantime.
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Who Replaces Tim Armstrong at Google? The David Rosenblatt Fan Club Pipes Up.

in Media on March 13, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Eric Schmidt says he’s going to pick an internal candidate to replace Tim Armstrong, the Google sales star who’s leaving to run AOL. And lot of people say David Rosenblatt, the former DoubleClick CEO who started working for Google a year ago after the acquisition, is his best choice.
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