AdMob has long had a global focus and when we announced our Series C funding several months ago we talked about accelerating the growth of our worldwide operations, with an emphasis in Western Europe, India, South Africa, and Japan. Today, I’m happy to say that we are taking a big step forward in Japan with the appointment of John Lagerling as AdMob’s Vice President and General Manager of Japan.

John Lagerling brings strong leadership to our operations in Japan and has a solid background in the Japanese mobile industry. He joins us following positions at NTT Docomo and Google.

Japan has long been a leading market in terms of mobile Internet usage and with the establishment of our Tokyo-based subsidiary we are excited to come closer to Japanese users. We are looking forward to joining forces with our local partners to be part of the continued growth and evolution of the Japanese mobile marketing space.

I am very excited to have John join the AdMob team and begin ramping up our operations in Tokyo.

Omar