The REA Group Appoints Greg Ellis as New CEO
August 28, 2008 by Simon Baker
Today the REA Group announced the appointment of Greg Ellis as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Ellis is currently Marketing Director Asia Online Services for Microsoft. He will take on the new role on Monday, 8 September.
Ellis has over 20 years business experience, 14 of which have been in senior line management positions. He has worked in Australia, Asia and Europe.
Before his current role at Microsoft, he was Managing Director of Online and Search at World Directories in the Netherlands.
Ellis also spent five years at Sensis and 11 years at Telstra. At Sensis, he was most recently General Manager of Sensis Interactive. At Telstra, his most recent role was National General Manager, Marketing Strategy & Planning.
You can check out Greg Ellis’ full bio on linkedin (http://www.linkedin.com/in/gellis)
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