Grady Burnett of Google AdWords to join Facebook
05 Jun 2009
Grady Burnett who was head of Google's AdWords division earlier, is now joining Facebook.
Burnett joined Google in 2006. He headed Google's self-serve AdWords division, the pay-per-click, search-term-based advertising that's the company's primary source of revenue.
Burnett led the AdWords office since it opened in Ann Arbor in 2006.
Burnett will oversee Facebook's online advertising sales, which are the self-generated campaigns created by users and seen on the right side of profiles. The self-generated campaigns are believed to account for most of Facebook's revenue.
Burnett also oversee Facebook's inside sales and will report to COO Sheryl Sandberg.
The social network site has more than 200 million global users and is expected to generate $500 million in sales in 2009.
Google's 2008 revenue was $21.7 billion.