Exclusive: Digg Steals A Google Exec As New VP Product
November 30, 2009 at 13:55 PM EST
Digg has poached Keval Desai away from Google as their new Vice President of Product, we've confirmed from the company. Desai's last day at Google is today. Desai is a long time Google employee, first joining the company in 2003. He's currently their Director of Product Management and has led development of product/businesses in Google’s advertising business (including AdWords, Syndication & TV Ads). He'll be Digg's first head of product, a responsibility that has been shared at various times by founder Kevin Rose , CEO Jay Adelson and Chief Strategy Officer Mike Maser . And he's got a big job ahead of him: Digg is hard at work on releasing an entirely new version of the site .