Top Hires of the Day: Coughran to Sequoia, Petrov to Google and Baker to Facebook

[ From left to right: Bill Coughran, Andrey Petrov and Ed Baker. ]

Google's former SVP of Engineering, Bill Coughran, joined Sequoia Capital as a partner. Bill will be making early and growth-stage investments, according to his Sequoia profile.
 
Bill Coughran
Google+  https://plus.google.com/105152503384268783597/posts
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bill.coughran
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/billcoughran
Blog: http://www.coughran.net/

Sequoia Capital
Website: http://www.sequoiacap.com/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/sequoia

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Social Grapple, a social graph analytics startup, is moving its entire team to Google, including founder Andrey Petrov, as part of Google's acquisition. Andrey, a Spring 2010 YC alum, co-founded Contagion Health in 2009.
http://socialgrapple.com/announcement

Andrey Petrov, Social Grapple creator
Twitter: @shazow  
Google+: https://plus.google.com/109834643338395014064
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/shazow
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreypetrov
Blog: http://shazow.net/

Google
Website: www.google.com
Twitter: @google 
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/google

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In Facebook's acquisition of Social Q&A service Friend.ly, co-founder Ed Baker and his team will work on Facebook product while maintaining the Friend.ly service.

Ed Baker, Friend.ly CEO
Twitter: @esbaker  
Google+: https://plus.google.com/114546234170468195943/posts
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ed-baker/0/8b/20
About.me: http://about.me/esbaker

Facebook
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/facebook
Twitter: @facebook http://twitter.com/#!/facebook
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/facebook