According to CNET News.com Benjamin Fried will be the new head information officer of Google.Benjamin Fried has been working with Morgan Stanley’s computing operations for around 14 years. Benjamin Fried is a programmer who proved quite successful and ran many of Morgan Stanley’s computing communications.

Matt Furman a spokesperson of Google informed Thursday that Fried will join the new post in May 2008.At present, Fried is working as managing director of Morgan Stanley’s Application Infrastructure group.

According to an inside Morgan Stanley note perceived by News.com, Fried will depart Morgan Stanley till end April and will join Google the narrated word on this memo are “To follow prospects outside the company.”

The note also indicated that Fried is no stranger to Google.While at Morgan Stanley, one of his projects was working on Google’s initial public offering in 2004, the memo said.
Douglas Merrill was the last Google’s CIO and he quit earlier this month and he would be the head of EMI’s digital unit.These rumors are in rife from the beginning of this month that Fried will be new CIO of Google.

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