Google appoints Dennis Woodside as VP, Americas

Google has named Dennis Woodside as VP-Americas operations. 

Woodside has been at Google for five years, spending the last couple of years in Europe.

Google's head of global sales and business development Woodside worked in Google's Eastern European office before moving to Dublin, where he built Google's inside sales operations from scratch.

Woodside, 40, will start in the next few weeks, said Google (GOOG) in an internal communication about the appointment, as Armstrong transitions from Google to AOL. It is the key advertising sales job at Google.