Google Communications SVP Rachel Whetstone Leaves For Uber

Re/Code is reporting that Google’s SVP of Communications and coverage Rachel Whetstone is leaving for the same role at Uber. She’ll reportedly be taking over for former Obama marketing campaign manager and strategist David Plouffe who used to be employed via Uber to maintain various crises roughly a 12 months ago.

Plouffe will stay with Uber in an advisory capability. Google has independently tested to us that Whetstone is certainly leaving however declined to tricky beyond that.

in step with the Re/Code article Jessica Powell will be (possibly temporarily) stepping into Whetstone’s communications management position at Google.

Whetstone, the writer of the recent “actually Rupert?” put up with the infamous laughing child .gif, will transfer from scuffling with Google’s European critics to battling home and European opponents of Uber.

Uber has confronted some setbacks in the united states. on the other hand the effort to dam Uber in Europe and somewhere else outdoor the usa is far more equipped and determined.

beyond her skills, it’s most probably not a twist of fate that Whetstone is a woman. the company has been accused of getting an ethically challenged, sexist tradition. Plouffe used to be hired to combat those perceptions and help rein in executive missteps in addition to care for hostile municipalities.

Uber is evidently on the street towards an IPO, with a big new $50 billion valuation. The trip sharing firm still faces various boundaries and tough terrain, alternatively, prior to it may reach its final Wall street vacation spot.

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