Meet The Secret Weapon Facebook Poached From Microsoft
2. Carolyn- A Strong Employee
Carolyn has a very impressive employment history which led her to work for one of the biggest companies the tech world has seen. Armed with an MBA from Harvard Business School she has worked as an analyst at Accenture, a manager, Business Development at Walt Disney Imagineering.
She was the VP at Primedia and then served as the COO, EVP MTVN ad sales as Viacom. She catapulted mtvU into Viacom’s fastest growing business and its ad business tripled. She was then hired by Microsoft Corporation as the CVP, Global Ad Sales & Strategy.
Less than a year at the job she received a call from Sheryl Sandberg to come on board with Facebook. “My heart jumped when the phone call came,” Everson said. “I feel like this kind of opportunity comes along once in a lifetime.” Shortly after that she joined Facebook.
