Mark Lopez, a veteran U.S. Hispanic internet executive, is joining Google this month as head of U.S. Hispanic, a new position at the company. Mr. Lopez, 40, has been chief operations officer at Terra Networks USA since 2007.
Mr. Lopez, who will be based in New York, will report to Google’s country manager in Mexico and work closely with the U.S. sales operation, he said. John Farrell, Google’s country manager for Mexico and U.S. Hispanic, has taken the initiative over the last year to plot a U.S. Hispanic strategy for Google. That includes the hiring of Mr. Lopez, and a study about U.S. Hispanics and the internet that Google plans to unveil at a half-day event in January in New York. Google already works with some advertisers in the U.S. Hispanic market, mostly in the package goods and airline categories.
“Mark is responsible for driving our sales efforts by working with the U.S. sales teams and with Mexico where we service our accounts,” said Mr. Farrell, who was in New York to attend the Ad:tech conference and run the New York marathon on Sunday.
“[Hispanic] is really the growth market in the U.S.,” Mr. Lopez said. There are big opportunities for Google in search, display and mobile, he said. Mr. Farrell pointed out that key words in Spanish often sell for a fraction of the price of the same search term in English.
Mr. Lopez starts at Google on Nov. 29. His last day at Terra is Nov. 12.
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Great choice. Mr Lopez is a great asset to google