{"id":7072,"date":"2014-12-01T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T03:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2014-12-01T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T03:28:57","slug":"former-unilever-vp-now-chief-google-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/12\/01\/former-unilever-vp-now-chief-google-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Unilever VP now chief of Google Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7073\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ken-Lingan-Google-PH-Country-Manager-120114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7073\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ken-Lingan-Google-PH-Country-Manager-120114-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Lingan\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ken-Lingan-Google-PH-Country-Manager-120114-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ken-Lingan-Google-PH-Country-Manager-120114-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ken-Lingan-Google-PH-Country-Manager-120114.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Lingan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Google Philippines announced today the appointment of Kenneth Lingan as Country Manager for the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Ken joins Google from Unilever where he was Vice-President for Deodorants, Southeast Asia and ANZ, based out of Singapore.\u00a0 Prior to that, Ken was Marketing Director for Unilever Home and Personal Care in the Gulf Region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ken&#8217;s 16 years of experience in marketing and brand development will be a real asset as we continue to grow our business from the Manila office,\u201d said Julian Persaud, Google\u2019s managing director for Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippines is fast digitizing, and I am very much inspired by the possibilities that Google can bring our users, advertisers, and publishers here. I\u2019m delighted to be part of Google\u2019s journey in the Philippines, helping to bring tools and products that make a meaningful impact in people\u2019s lives and enabling businesses to make the most of the Internet to grow their enterprise,\u201d said Ken.<\/p>\n<p>Ken is a graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in Management Engineering. Ken is married and has two young daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Philippines announced today the appointment of Kenneth Lingan as Country Manager for the Philippines. Ken joins Google from Unilever where he was Vice-President for Deodorants, Southeast Asia and ANZ, based out of Singapore.\u00a0 Prior to that, Ken was Marketing Director for Unilever Home and Personal Care in the Gulf Region. &#8220;Ken&#8217;s 16 years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[337,2264,856],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-google","tag-ken-lingan","tag-people-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}