AOL Hires Adman Jeff Levick Away from Google

AOL has hired Jeff Levick away from Google. He will be head of global advertising and strategy.

Levick replaces Greg Coleman, formerly of Yahoo. Coleman lasted three months — he replaced Lynda Clarizio.

Levick was most recently Google’s veep of industry development and marketing, the Americas. He was with the search engine juggernaut for eight years. He is a board director for the Search Engine Strategies conference series.

The hire comes as Time Warner prepares to spin-off AOL. Google’s Tim Armstrong was recently brought on as CEO.