Google GOOG (NYSE) recently hired Bell Canada’s executive, Daniel Pichette, to become its new CFO. Google’s search to replace its former CFO, George Reyes, took ten months, a long time to replace this position. Joseph Wiesenthal of PaidContent.org wrote a short but incisive piece on the process, entitled Google’s CFO Search: Why’d it take so long? The piece is worth a quick read.
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September 24, 2008
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