I have the pleasure of confirming the rumors: Heather Harde, currently the SVP of Mergers and Acquisitions at Fox Interactive Media, will start her new job as the CEO of the TechCrunch Network (and my boss) by the end of the month. This isn’t the way I hoped to announce this news, but Om Malik broke the story after an internal Fox email got out.
It was tough to talk Heather into leaving Fox, where she’s been for the last ten years. In that time she’s had a combination of operating and corporate development roles. Most recently, she was part of the founding executive team of Fox Interactive Media. At FIM she ran the mergers and acquisitions team, which was responsible for eight acquisitions, totaling $1.3 billion, and two equity investment deals. Prior to Fox, Heather was at business school at Harvard.
There is a lot for her to do. She will run every aspect of our business other than editorial, which I’ll be focusing on for now. TechCrunch has grown faster than I could manage over the last couple of years. Heather’s job will be to leverage the opportunities that we have sometimes let slip by, and to manage our organic and acquisition growth going forward.
If you can’t tell, I’m pretty excited to have her on board. More announcements are coming soon.
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Michael Arrington looks like a grown up Michael Cerra (george michael from Arrested Development) in that pic posted in comment #97
Breakfast?
FIM did a fantastic job of turning an old media company into an Internet powerhouse. It’ll be exciting cheering from the sidelines as you guys build TC into a BIG (but different) media company. Congrats!
Mike, congratulations to both you and Heather. I think this is a great move.
cool, congrats to all of you. she’s gonna take TC to the next level!
Thanks Michael, you is really a big guy, the world needs this kind of guy to cease the war in Iraq and to leave Africa’s misery.
Welcome Heather.
Thanks Michael, you are really a big guy, the world needs this kind of guy to cease the war in Iraq and to leave Africa’s misery.
Welcome Heather.
Congrats TechCrunch! The future looks very bright!
good job Mikey, now you can focus on checking your typos and writing about more meaningful subjects
Dear Heather,
To offer a bit friendlier version of dumbo’s previous comment, please teach Michael the proper use of the possessive “its” and the contraction “it’s” (it is).
Seriously. That is not too much to ask. He makes this bonehead mistake on a daily basis and it poses a serious credibility problem.
I’ll try this one more time.
“Congrats. It makes me ask though: who owns TechCrunch? Could you give us a list of the major investors or is it just you?”
Curious to know, unless this is for some reason hidden information.
This is a pretty cool move, I really love how a one person edited blog can become a hub for high quality web investments, you’ve attracted a pretty amazing person here Mike, great to see techcrunch get so far, full credit!
Cool that you’re on board Heather
Congratulations !
Huge move… Congrats.
“If you can’t tell, I’m pretty excited to have her on board.”
Never too early to kiss some butt huh?
Good Job Mike, you needed someone smarter than you cause you had no vision.
we should have a PARTY to welcome her. Can I co-host it?
Oh, this is great news, welcome Heather. I always look forward to the e-mail from Tech Crunch each day. I have found new content as a result.
Thanks, and good luck!
Hey Thanks Ron. I agree.
Paul - I’m good at managing up.
Congratulations to both of you. Heather is a star. Mike is a groundbreaker. A powerful team. All the best !!
Ross
Congrats on everything but I agree with the comment about your “about” section–please update it! If you need help let me know
Nice reply
Wish you luck; I enjoy reading your site.
me: “so, are you a writer at TechCrunch?”
heather: “no.”
me: “oh.”
awkward silence.
me: (goes to look up who “heather” is)
me: (foot in mouth)
good
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