日前，Crain's Chicago率先报道称，每日团购交易巨头Groupon已经聘请谷歌（Google）高管马格•吉尔亚迪担任公司新的首席运营官。吉尔亚迪目前为谷歌全球销售规划和技术副总裁，是谷歌在芝加哥级别最高的员工。

    Groupon的罗伯•所罗门于上月离职，官方说法是他想返回加州北部，此后，Groupon创始人兼首席执行官安德鲁•梅森一直在为公司物色新的二号人物（一些报道指出，所罗门和梅森一直不和，而另一些则质疑前雅虎高管所罗门是否真的有能力掌控如此大规模的业务）。

    也就是说，吉尔亚迪成为了团购界的谢乐儿•桑德博格（谢乐儿•桑德博格为Facebook首席运营官——译注）。当然，如果Facebook的Deals团购平台真的做大，那么就没吉尔亚迪什么事了。

    这次事件中有意思的地方是，谷歌去年曾提出以60亿美元收购Groupon，不过被后者断然拒绝。据传，Groupon正在准备首次公开募股（IPO），甚至还聘请了高盛（Goldman Sachs）和摩根士丹利（Morgan Stanley）作为主承销商，公司估值目前已超过250亿美元。聘请吉尔亚迪对于Groupon而言非常关键，因为如果公司高管人选悬而未决，那么公开市场的投资者将不大有兴趣买进公司股票。预计吉尔亚迪要花几个月才能在新公司安顿下来，接下来，Groupon可能就会[向美国证交会]提出上市申请……

    吉尔亚迪于2009年10月加盟谷歌。在此之前的9个月，她在专注于个人消费者的私募股权公司Synetro Capital担任负责人。更早之前，她在Discover Financial Services担任首席市场官和负责卡片产品的执行副总裁。吉尔亚迪同时还是服装零售商Jones Group的董事会成员。

    译者：项航

    Daily deals giant Groupon has hired Google (GOOG) executive Margo Georgiadis as its new chief operating officer, as first reported by Crain's Chicago. She currently is Google's highest-ranking officer in Chicago, where she serves as a VP of global sales planning and technology.

    Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason has been serving for a new number two since Rob Solomon quit last month, officially because he wanted to return to Northern California (some reports suggested he and Mason weren't on the some page, while others wondered if the former Yahoo exec was really up to the task of running such a large operation).

    So Georgiadis becomes Sheryl Sandberg for the daily deals world. Well, unless Facebook really scales its Deals platform, which would make Sheryl Sandberg the Sheryl Sandberg of the daily deals world.

    The interesting part of this, of course, is that Google offered to buy Groupon last year for $6 billion, but was rebuffed. Groupon now is rumored to be prepping an IPO that could value the company at upwards of $25 billion, having even hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as lead underwriters. Hiring Georgiadis is a vital next step, since public market investors would be loathe to buy into a company whose senior management is unsettled. Expect it will take Georgiadis a few months to settle in, and then perhaps an S-1 could be passing through Edgar...

    Prior to joining Google in October 2009, Georgiadis spent nine months as a principal with consumer-focused private equity firm Synetro Capital. Before that, she was chief marketing officer and executive VP of card products for Discover Financial Services. Georgiadis also is listed as a board member of apparel retailer Jones Group.