2 posts and columns on sales group

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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MySpace Welcomes Media Link (and Wenda Millard!): The Complete Internal Memo

in Media on August 20, 2009 at 12:55 pm PT

As Kara Swisher just reported, News Corp.’s MySpace has hired media consulting firm Media Link, along with Media Link President Wenda Harris Millard, to overhaul the social network’s sales group. Here’s the complete internal memo from CEO Owen Van Natta, which describes Millard’s position as head of the ad sales group as an “interim” one, and announces that former sales boss Jeff Berman is out.