Facebook Hires Amin Zoufonoun, Google's No. 2 Corp Dev Exec

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Monday, March 14th, 2011

Facebook has hired Google Corporate Development exec Amin Zoufonoun, we’ve heard from multiple sources. Zoufonoun has been with Google since 2003 and is the second most senior corp dev exec after David Lawee.

Zoufonoun will report to Vaughan Smith, Facebook’s director of corp dev.

Person: Amin Zoufonoun
Companies: Facebook, Google

Amin Zoufonoun is Director of Corporate Development at Facebook where he leads M&A efforts. Previously he was Director of Corporate Development at Google, where he led several of Google’s key strategic acquisitions and investments both in the U.S. and internationally, including Google’s first acquisition of a publicly traded company (On2).

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