MySpace has just announced the appointment of four new members to its executive team, which saw a major shakeup last April. The new hires include Nada Stirratt, who will serve as Chief Revenue Officer and Dustin Finer, who is now Chief People Officer. Joining them will be iLike founders (and brothers) Ali Partovi , who is now SVP of Business Development based in San Francisco, and Hadi Partovi as SVP of Technology, based out of Seattle.
MySpace acquired streaming music service iLike in August for $20 million.
Other recent MySpace hires include Mark Rosenbaum as CFO and Alex Maghen as CTO (he was formerly CTO of MySpace Music, now he heads technology at MySpace proper as well).
Below is MySpace’s bio about Stirratt, who served as EVP of Digital Advertising at MTV before joining MySpace:
Prior to MySpace, Stirratt served as Executive Vice President of Digital Advertising at MTV Networks where she oversaw advertising sales and strategy, ad operations, Digital Fusion-integrated marketing, and Tribes, the company’s third-party vertical affiliate network. Before MTV, Nada served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of advertising sales at Advertising.com. Earlier in her career, Stirratt worked in ad sales and business development for such entertainment brands as AOL-Time Warner, Moviefone, Allure and Cosmopolitan.
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I don’t know if this time can fix myspace.
I don’t know if this team can fix myspace. It doesn’t seem to have any direction on what they want to do.
fine and dandy. But how many internal staff changes does it take to produce something meaningful?
Don’t count them out just yet. The Partovi brothers have a nice string of successes – both independently and with iLike. Sounds like a unifying force around MySpace’s strength in music and entertainment.
also how long does it take to make changes like they said??? all i really see is a new mail system… prety useless when u consider that its beeen 5months and myspace is desperate to hold on to users
The only thing Myspace might have left is their platform for musicians, although this too has practically fizzled out completely.
As a social networking musician, years ago, Myspace exposed my band into a comfortable amount of fame, and although we shifted over to Facebook and Twitter some time ago, Myspace still has, by far, the most user friendly platform for musicians.
So… the solution is to convert Myspace into a music space. Build upon what they already have, get rid of what doesn’t work.
Friends getting their friends paid on someone else’s dime. Courtney Holt’s days are numbered as these people will go for the cash grab and leave the wreckage in their wake. This story has been played out again and again already.