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Industry Moves Roundup: Open Table; New Enterprise Associates; MobiTV; Universal Music Group

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OpenTable: Former PayPal president Jeff Jordan has resurfaced nearly a year after leaving eBay to spend more time with his family, joining online restaurant reservation site OpenTable as CEO. He succeeds Thomas Leyton, the CitySearch co-founder who helped hire him and stays on the board. Jordan, who worked his way through college as a chef, says this appealed when various tech jobs did not. AP.

New Enterprise Associates: Mike Ramsay, co-founder and former TiVo chairman and CEO of TiVo, has joined New Enterprise Associates as a venture partner. The company hopes to mine Ramsey’s experience to develop future consumer technology companies. He helped start TiVo in 1997 and served as CEO and chair until 2005. Before TiVo, Ramsay was SVP of the silicon desktop group for Silicon Graphics. Release.

MobiTV: Bill Losch has been named CFO of MobiTV. Losche has been a senior executive at DreamWorks Animation, Yahoo and Universal Studios. Emeryville-based MobiTV provides television and radio content for mobile phones and broadband. (Via BizJournals.)

Universal Music Group: Jeffrey Bronikowski will take the post of SVP, Business Development, Global Digital Initiatives at UMG. He is being promoted from his current position as VP of Business Development for eLabs, UMG’s digital and new technologies division. Bronikowski will lead key digital initiatives to grow UMG’s consumer initiatives by incubating new businesses, forming strategic partnerships and spearheading acquisitions. In addition to Bronikowski’s promotion, UMG is also moving Rio Caraeff up to the role of EVP of eLabs/General Manager of Universal Music Mobile. Release.

May 29, 2007 4:32 PM ET

Posted In: Entertainment, Music, Industry Moves, Social Media, Community

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