• VentureBeat, Wednesday, April 8, 2009 12:15 PM

The executive exodus at Google continues. Last month, AOL announced that it was hiring the company's top sales executive, Tim Armstrong, as its chairman and CEO. Yesterday, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Google's president for Asia Pacific & Latin American Operations, said she was leaving to join the venture capital firm Accel Partners, whose investment portfolio includes Facebook, Glam Media, Macromedia and MetroPCS. On Tuesday, the search giant also lost its Latin America director, Gonzalo Alonso.

Singh Cassidy joins Accel as its "CEO in Residence", where she'll help Accel's portfolio companies with the option of becoming chief executive of one of its future investments. VentureBeat's Matt Marshall and others suggest that Singh Cassidy's departure was solidified when Google passed her over for Armstrong's job, which eventually went to Dennis Woodside, another Google sales exec.

Singh Cassidy built up Google's operations in Latin America and Asia Pacific to the point where Google now serves 103 different countries in those regions. Prior to that, Singh Cassidy was the first general manager of Google Local & Maps, which she helped launch in 2003.

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