Facebook has bagged in the Chief from Motorola Mobility Mr. Gary Biggs as Chief Marketing Officer. Until Google completed its $12.5 Billion acquisition last year Gary Biggs served as CMO for Motorola.
Facebook believes that it is the right time to hire the social network’s first CMO to lead the company ‘s marketing sales claimed AdAge.Briggs has been brought in to replace the former vice president of product marketing Eric Antonow who has served Facebook for past three years.
Briggs has been hired after a year and half after the web giant had taken over Motorola Mobility a year ago. It is said by sources from Adage that Briggs is really excited to take this new challenge and lead the marketing sector of the webgiant.
He quoted “, Facebook isn’t just a company for more than a billion people,rather it’s their connection to their friends and things they care about more than anything else. By telling the story of such an important and still very young brand is an incredible opportunity, and I really cannot wait to get started”
Before working as an Advisor to Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside and its new CMO,Bill Morgan ,Briggs has served at EBay and Pepsi Co for six long years in the consumer Marketing Sector.