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Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Joins J. Crew Board of Directors

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:04:07 +0000

Former Google executive Sukhinder Singh Cassidy was one of the candidates for replacing Tim Armstrong after he quit Google and became the AOL CEO. Now Cassidy is a CEO-in-Residence at Accel Partners and has just been appointed to become a board member at retail company J. Crew.

When Cassidy was at Google, she was responsible fr the search engine company’s Asia-Pacific and Latin American operations. Before Google Cassidy worked at Yodlee, Amazon.com and OpenTV. Below is a full press release about the new position.

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/–J. Crew Group, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE: JCG) today announced that Sukhinder Singh Cassidy had been appointed to its Board of Directors, effective August 14, 2009. In addition, Jonathan Coslet, has advised the Company of his intention to resign from the Board of Directors, effective August 14, 2009 in order to focus on his responsibilities at TPG Capital L.P.

Ms. Singh Cassidy, 39, is CEO-in-residence at Accel Partners, a global venture and growth equity firm, since April 2009. Prior to that, Ms. Singh Cassidy was a global Vice-President of Sales and Operations for Google, Inc., and from 2005 to 2009 she was Google’s President for Asia-Pacific & Latin America Operations. From 2003 to 2005, she was Google’s General Manager of Local Search, Video and Print Partnerships.

Millard Drexler, J.Crew’s Chairman and CEO said, “We are pleased to welcome Sukhinder to our Board. Her experience with new media and internet strategy make her a great fit for our Board of Directors and for J.Crew. We also want to thank Jonathan for his many contributions and support over the years.”

[via BoomTown]

Matt Brittin Promoted To Head Up Google UK, Dennis Woodside Replacing Armstrong

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:02:31 +0000

About two years ago, Google hired Matt Brittin from Trinity Mirror. Now Brittin will be heading up Google’s entire UK operation. Dennis Woodside, managing director of Google UK, Ireland, and Benelux will be replacing Tim Armstrong. Armstrong is the former VP of Americas that is now taking the role of AOL CEO and Chairman.

Before we were speculating that Sukhinder Cassidy would replace Armstrong, but that is no longer the case.

Brittin was on the rowing team for Great Britain in 1988 for the Olympics and won several World Championship medals. Brittin used to tbe the Director of Strategy and Digital when he was working there. He worked closely with major advertising companies.

Mark Howe currently maintains Google UK’s ad agency and will be reporting directly to Brittin. Brittin will be managing the UK while other managers will oversee Ireland and Benelux operations.

[via Guardian]

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy May Take Tim Armstrong’s Former Position At Google

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:49:19 +0000

As many of you know by now, former Google VP Tim Armstrong left the company to join AOL as the CEO and Chairman. This leaves an empty slot at Google where big shoes have to be filled. Google had already stated that they were planning on finding a replacement internally, someone who already knows the business inside and out. Well now we have a potential name: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy.

Cassidy is Google’s President of Asia-Pacific and Latin American Operations. She works closely with SVP of Global Sales and Business Development Omid Kordestani. Armstrong built strong ties with several media bigwigs including Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of NBC Universal. Cassidy will have to maintain those relations.

Cassidy is formerly a product manager at a database company called Junglee. Cassidy was also an investment banker for some time at BSkyB. Cassidy started a company back in 1999 called Yodlee.com and worked there up until 2003.

It sounds like Cassidy has quite a bit of entrepreneurial experience, but Armstrong worked very closely with “big media.” Although I do not know much about Cassidy, I can definetely say that it will be a major challenge.

[via WSJ]