PayPal Brings Back CMO Role to Hire Former Apple Executive Allison Johnson

Wall Street Journal (paywall)

PayPal Holdings Inc. has named Allison Johnson executive vice president and chief marketing officer, reviving a post that disappeared from the company in 2013. Ms. Johnson was vice president of world-wide marketing communications at Apple Inc. from 2005 through 2011 and was previously a senior marketing executive at HP Inc. She was most recently a founder and managing partner at West, which she described as a hybrid of a marketing and venture-capital firm. She said she left last March.”