Schindler is one of three execs taking over responsibilities previously held by chief business officer Omid Kordestani, who is moving to an advisory role as part of the Alphabet restructuring and Sundar Pichai’s related promotion to CEO of core Google. As his first task as the Google top boss, Pichai is reshuffling the leadership of the entire operations. The new appointments were announced via the internal emails that circulated around the internet company. Google is hopeful that the changes will bring in more profits for the tech giant.
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While he’s been overseeing Chrome OS’ development and Android’s expansion into cars and wearables since previous year, he’s now officially the Senior Vice President handling Android, Chrome and Chromecast. Lockheimer has been a Google employee since 2006, first working as an engineer and closely with Pichai. Mohan was the former owner of DoubleClick, which Google acquired to grow their ads business. Recode states that Mohan is a much-sought after advertising executive and was nearly pirated by Twitter and Dropbox on separate instances.
Neal Mohan, vice president of display and video advertising, has now been given the role of a senior vice president of those two categories. Mohan is heavily involved in the ad videos and other displays for the company, and being heavily involved in YouTube, which is arguably the biggest online video platform, will be a challenge for the executive.
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Philip Schindler is now the SVP of Global Sales and Operations, after being an ads VP for a few time now.
