Apr 02
Word is
from John Furrier that Google Chief Information Officer Douglas Merrill is
leaving the company to become president of EMI. News.com
has confirmation
of his departure from Google and says sources also say he’s going to EMI. The
New York Times also has sources saying he’s headed to the music company.
Merrill’s departure (recently profiled
here in Information Week) comes less than a month after another senior exec,
Sheryl Sandberg,
left Google for Facebook. Brain drain? Sort of, but more a question of how do
you keep rich top execs challenged, I’d say.