StumbleUpon, a ‘social’ search engine where users are taken to randomly popular sites based on their own interests, has gained two new employees this week who have been plucked straight from the world’s most popular search engine, Google.
The role for director of sales will be filled by Anthony Napolitano while Oliver Hsiang will assume the role of director of strategic partnerships. Napolitano has spent time doing work with both Google Checkout and as team leader for Google Analytics, as well as acting as the senior account executive for Google’s TV advertising. He’s also worked for both ESPN and CNET, so is a very good all round staff member with a great degree of experience.
Hsiang has worked at Google as the manager for strategic partnership development, and has previously worked for both Microsoft and Yahoo! He will now be working with StumbleUpon to find new digital partners for the website.
According to company CEO Garret Camp, these new staff members are a sign of StumbleUpon’s expansion during the year:
“StumbleUpon has seen tremendous growth this year, including the addition of 15 new team members in the last three months alone. We look forward to adding Anthony’s and Oliver’s extensive experience and relationships to the mix to drive sales and develop new partnerships for StumbleUpon.”
The site boasts 10 million registered users on the site, many of whom submit what they deem to be worthwhile content to the search engine at large, allowing other users to visit these sites by random simply by selecting interests. Companies and bloggers usually find their sites on StumbleUpon when they provide relevant, interesting and original content. The site currently serves over 40,000 advertisers and has been expanding considerably in the last few years to become on the most well known of the ‘social’ scene.
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