Alphabet Hires Head Of Policy And Communications Of Google Fiber

Gabriel Stricker left Twitter To Join Google to head Policy and Communications of Google Fiber.

Google has reappointed an employee. Gabriel Stricker would return to the office or rather its parent company, Alphabet. He left Twitter this year as its Chief Communications Officer to lead Policy and Communications of Google Fiber at Alphabet. He earlier worked at the enterprise as Director of Global Communications & Public Affairs before being appointed by the social networking organization in 2012.

Stricker’s return to Alphabet or Google also suggests the interest of the company in expansion of Google Fiber, the venture that has been initiated to provide fast fiber-optic internet connectivity and cable TV to more regions of the US. He announced on Twitter that he would lead Google Fiber’s communications and policy.

Introduced five years ago, the project was extended to only few cities, including Salt Lake City and Nashville. The tech company recently said that it would be expanding Fiber to Los Angeles and Chicago. Previously this year, Google Fiber had 27,000 TV subscribers.

In August, as part of a huge restructuring, Google announced Alphabet as its holding corporation, which has assumed the control over the core business of Google and driverless vehicles, efforts in the field of healthcare, and a large number of moonshot developments. Google’s internet service venture also comes under Alphabet.

The appointment of a communications and policy head for the project indicates that Alphabet might no longer view Fiber as an experimental venture, and it will need the expertise of Mr. Stricker to deal with internet service providers and local strategies.

In July, the new head, who helmed both marketing and communications at the San Francisco based enterprise, announced that he was quitting the micro blogging network, Twitter. He was one of those many senior executives of the company who stepped down from their posts, besides former CEO Dick Costolo, who also left previously.

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