By Greg Hazley
Quinn Daly, who built “content farm” Demand Media’s corporate communications unit and guided the online publisher through its $153M IPO in January, has left the company for a top post at Coburn Communication.
Daily stepped down from Demand this month after a five-year stint as senior VP, corporate communications. The company has not yet been reached about a replacement.
She has taken up an executive VP role in Los Angeles for Coburn, a 12-year-old, New York-based firm led by former Calvin Klein PR exec Shirine Coburn.
Demand’s shares have sunk by half amid a broad market decline and a challenge by Google to its SEO-juiced articles since the company’s successful market debut in January. Reuters columnist Robert Cyran this week blasted Demand for implementing a $25M share buyback program he said was “galling” to shareholders who were led to believe the company went public to invest in other areas like expansion and marketing.
Daly was previously a GM for Blanc & Otus’ San Francisco office and earlier guided corporate PR for Macromedia, marketing communications at start-up Xythos Software, and international PR for Silicon Graphics.
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