Facebook has just landed a big hire as it continues to expand its business around the globe: former Bebo CEO Joanna Shields. According to The Wall Street Journal, Shields will lead the company’s sales and business development in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Shields is best known for helping engineer the sale of Bebo to AOL for a massive (and in retrospect, completely absurd) $850 million. But before that, she worked at Google, where she spent time building the company’s international sales operations.
Facebook has hired a number of high profile ex-Googlers, most notably Sherly Sandberg, who became the company’s COO in 2008.