Facebook Hires Top HP Executive as Chief Marketing Officer

Facebook on Friday declared to procure Antonio Lucio, right now Global Chief Marketing and Communication Officer at HP, who will work over the internet based life monster's group of applications, including WhatsApp and Instagram.

Lucio will answer to Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and will be a piece of Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's authority group.

"Antonio will go along with us from HP, where he drove their showcasing group for a long time. Before that he was the CMO at Visa and at PepsiCo," Cox composed on Facebook.

Lucio, supplanting Gary Briggs who has reported to advance down, will begin as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Facebook from September 4.

"Facebook's story is at an expression point. We have never confronted greater difficulties, and we have never had more chances to positively affect the world by enhancing our items at their center," said Cox.

Lucio put in more than three years with Palo Alto-based HP Inc following its detachment from The Hewlett Packard Corporation.

"(Lucio) has been blunt on the need to assemble valid worldwide brands with honesty and from spots of guideline, and furthermore on the significance of building differing groups at each level in the association (HP)," included Cox.