Will Google’s CIO Modernize EMI?

Dating coach Wayne Elise once said women don’t want an engineer who looks like an engineer, they want an engineer who looks like a record producer. In that case, women will want Douglas Merrill. The eminently progressive CIO of Google is leaving his illustrious post to become President of EMI Digital Business on April 28.
Yes, it’s a shocker: a clueful guy who looks like a surfer dude jumping from a rising company in a rising industry filled with smart people to a troubled company in a troubled industry filled with dumb people. As he said in an interview today, he …read more