Google on Tuesday lost its second senior executive in two months, as Doug Merrill, the company's vice president of engineering, announced that he would leave to become the president of digital at
EMI Music. Merrill's departure was preceded by that of Sheryl Sandberg, the company's former video president for global sales and operations, who left in February to become COO of Facebook. The search
giant is also still without a CFO.
At EMI, Merrill's job will be to drive the record company's digital distribution strategy. At Google, Merrill headed the company's internal engineering
efforts and was involved in several of the company's technology startups, including the online payment system Google Checkout.
Amid a slowing economy and slumping stock price, it's
become increasingly difficult for the company to keep the talent it hired when Google was a startup.
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