MySpace has just announced that CTO and co-founder Aber Whitcomb will be leaving the company, to be replaced by MySpace Music’s current CTO Alex Maghen. The news doesn’t come as much of a surprise — we speculated that Whitcomb would be leaving as part of the core executive shakeup that swept through MySpace last April (if anything it’s surprising that Whitcomb stayed on this long). At this point the last remaining member of MySpace’s old guard is Tom Anderson, who remains onboard in a limited capacity.
Maghen will take on the core responsibilities for running MySpace’s platform and will report to COO Mike Jones. Before joining MySpace, Maghen has previously served as CTO of MTV Networks and CTO of Yahoo Entertainment.
Other recent MySpace hires include former AOL and Tsavo exec Mike Macadaan as VP Product and former Facebook Director Katie Geminder as SVP of User Experience and Design. But it’s still seeing a trickle of current executives leaving — earlier this month SVP of Business Development Jason Oberfest left to join social and mobile gaming company ngmoco.
Good for Aber!
I have speculated that TC will speculate.
This guy is too buff to be a CTO of a computer company.
Myspace is going down, they need help
Finally they’ve put someone in charge with a firm understanding of the all-important bodybuilder demographic.
Who really cares? Really…..
kudos!
Facebook has all but decimated them in the social network game. Have you been to myspace lately? Ghost town. Tumbleweeds.
Yes, it is.
How much cash do you rake in sending guys to those fling sites linked to your pictures?? LOL
alyssa, you can’t be more right. myspace is dead
Can you believe MySpace still has ~15+ Vice Presidents which doesn’t include another ~5 Vice Presidents for MySpace Music. That’s a load of crap right there. Amount of money they spend on this crap load is complete waste! The developers will be easily outnumberd by SVPs, VPs, Executive VPs, Directors, Executive Directors and all those fancy development & product managers.
top heavy for sure.
Sure is!!!
There are more VPs, SVPs and Directors than Developers and the bureaucracy…
Good Riddance to Myspace.
maybe Aber will be the fired myspace exec too make lightning strike twice and be the first to catch another genie in a bottle.
Go Alex! No MySpace will finally be back on track
I didn’t know Renzo Gracie was MySpace CTO
Aber is a man of history: His accomplishments are unparalleled in internet scalability. Now go kick some more ass Aber!!!
myspace blows
interesting – looks like these things come/go in cycles – hirschhorn & maghen last worked together @ MTVi during the 1.0 days…