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Hope the new H of GM will buy Xero shares soon!

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MARKET RELEASE
Xero appoints Head of Global Marketing and Chief Platform Officer

3 July 2013

Xero Limited (XRO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeremy Wood to the position of Head of Global Marketing, responsible for the design, development and execution of Xero's global marketing strategy. This role leads all marketing efforts for the company including the HQ marketing and in-country marketing teams.

Wood was with Google from 2005, most recently as Google's Head of SMB Co-Marketing, Americas and before that Google Apps SMB Marketing Manager, APAC.

Xero is also pleased to announce the internal appointment of Duncan Ritchie
to the position of Chief Platform Officer (CPO), responsible for the design,
development, operations and support of Xero's online accounting software,
with teams around the globe.

The CPO is a new role being created to manage the continued rapid growth of Xero. The functions were previously managed by the COO, who will continue to work with the CEO on mid-to-long term strategic initiatives.
The CPO is a new role being created to manage the continued rapid growth of
Xero.


Xero's growth in staff continues with over 100 recruited in the last three months, taking total staff numbers to nearly 500. With another 200 jobs to be created by the end of March 2014, Xero is still aggressively recruiting,
particularly for those with development and operations skills.

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(from LinkedIn.com)

Jeremy Wood's Experience

Head of Global Marketing at Xero
San Francisco, California ( San Francisco Bay Area)
Computer Software
Head of Global Marketing


Xero
Public Company; 201-500 employees; NZX:XRO; Computer Software industry
July 2013 – Present (1 month) San Francisco Bay Area


Head of SMB Co-Marketing, Americas
Google
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; GOOG; Internet industry
January 2013 – June 2013 (6 months)
Mountain View, CA

Managed the CoMarketing Team across the Americas ( Canada , US, and LATAM) which looks to partner with companies and organisations that have large SMB communities to help empower their customers.

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Combined with thought leadership, content, tools, events, and of course offers/incentives, the SMB CoMarketing program is now expanding significantly and in turn bringing better solutions to SMB's across the region.



SMB Marketing Manager, APAC - Google Enterprise
Google
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; GOOG; Internet industry
January 2010 – December 2012 (3 years)
Sydney Area, Australia

As Enterprise SMB Marketing Manager for APAC, my responsibilities involved creating, managing, launching and tracking through integrated campaigns to help raise awareness of the Google Enterprise suite across Asia Pacific. Managing a multimillion dollar marketing budget, my responsibilities were to accelerate lead generation and develop both regional and global programs with the end goal of driving acquisition through online channels and partners.

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20130703/pdf/42gvc5jgt259mb.pdf