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MySpace Exec Moves Continue: Nada’s Apointment Official; Three Others Rejiggered

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Last week the news came out that Nada Stirratt was leaving her post as EVP, Digital Advertising for MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) to take on the role of chief revenue officer at MySpace. This evening the company made it official. Besides this, three other exec changes were announced:
—Dustin Finer has come on board as MySpace’s Chief People Officer
—Ali Partovi, former CEO of iLike, will serve as Senior Vice President of Business Development based in San Francisco.
—Hadi Partovi, former president of iLike, will serve as Senior Vice President of Technology based in Seattle. MySpace bought iLike earlier this summer.

As for Nada, she will lead global sales and strategy for MySpace and focus on developing new adv products for both marketers and users. Stirratt will be based in New York and report to MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta. More details on all four here.

So, to recount, here’s how MySpace top management is spread out across U.S. now:

—New York: Jon Miller (head of News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Digital so MySpace reports into him), and Jason Hirschhorn, Chief product Officer. Also, Wenda Harris Millard as the ad consultant working through her firm Medialink.
Los Angeles, technically its HQs: Mike Jones, COO; Dustin Finer, mentioned above; CTO Alex Maghen; CFO Mark Rosenbaum; MySpace Music CEO Courtney Holt, and Michael Kassan, also of MediaLink, who is based in LA
San Francisco: Owen Van Natta, CEO, and now Ali Partovi, mentioned above
Seattle: Hadi Partovi, mentioned above.

Any more appointments and I will scream. Am I missing anyone major? Good luck getting all of them in a room. And we’re all still waiting for the big plan announcement about what the MySpace rescue plan is, besides something about being a content/music/video/entertainment portal of some sort, what they officially are calling “the best social entertainment experience on the Web.”

Oct 14, 2009 8:18 PM ET

Saving MySpace Photo: Flickr/Thomas Hawk


Posted In: Industry Moves, Companies, News Corp., MySpace, ilike, nada stirratt

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