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Googler Phil Mui Joins Acxiom As Chief Product And Engineering Officer

Anthony Ha

Phil Mui, currently the group product manager for Google Analytics, will be joining marketing services and technology company Acxiom as chief product and engineering officer. According to Acxiom, Mui will report to CEO Scott Howe, lead a team of more than 750 people, and play "a decisive role" in the company's plans to increase research and development. In the the hiring press release, Howe calls Mui "the capstone of our strategic initiatives." Earlier this year, Warren Jenson joined as the company's chief financial officer (he was formerly CFO at Electronic Arts and Amazon.com), and Nada Stirratt joined as the first chief revenue officer (a role she served at MySpace).

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19 Apr 2012

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Microsoft's Amy Hood named CFO as Peter Klein departs

www.engadget.com Darren Murph 15 days ago

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If you'll recall, Microsoft revealed as a footnote to its Q3 2013 earnings report that then-CFO Peter Klein would be stepping down. Today, we're learning a bit more about the transition. Starting right now (well, a few minutes ago), corporate vice president Amy Hood has been moved up to chief financial officer, and while Klein is set to remain onboard through June, Hood is grabbing the title right away. Prior to this role, Hood served as CFO for Microsoft's Business Division, and has been with the company for just over a decade. Asked if she had any immediate plans, she softly nodded and whisp... Read similar

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Ex-Yahoo Interim CEO Ross Levinsohn Is Now CEO Of Guggenheim Digital Media

www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 128 days ago

guggenheim partners

yahoo ceo

interim ceo

diversified financial services

media brands

Former interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn is now the CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media. Guggenheim Digital Media is a new company, formed by Guggenheim Partners, which calls itself "a global diversified financial services firm." GDM says it will allocate "significant capital to acquire and invest in new media companies and properties that will meaningfully expand its current portfolio." GDM already owns Billboard, AdWeek, and The Hollywood Reporter – properties of Prometheus Global Media, another company that Guggenheim Partners controls and will now hand over to GDM. It... Read similar

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PopCap CTO & Veteran Adobe Exec Frits Habermann Joins Learning Platform Lynda.com To Help It Go Mobile, Global

techcrunch.com Rip Empson 157 days ago

Online video learning platform Lynda.com is making a big addition to its management team today, announcing that it has hired of Frits Habermann as its new chief technical officer. Habermann joins Lynda.com from EA's PopCap Games, where he was CTO and VP of social game operations and led the global technical growth of the company's social, mobile and console game, including its most popular franchises Plants vs. Zombies, Bejeweled and BookWorm.Read similar

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Microsoft Has A New CFO: Amy Hood

www.businessinsider.com Julie Bort 15 days ago

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outgoing cfo

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instrumental leader

business development team

Microsoft has named its new CFO, Amy Hood, who was formerly the top financial officer of the Microsoft Business Division Last month, Peter Klein announced he was leaving at the end of June after 3-1/2 years. Here's the press release: REDMOND, Wash., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that Amy Hood was named Microsoft chief financial officer, succeeding outgoing CFO Peter Klein who will remain at Microsoft through the end of June to ensure a smooth transition. Hood becomes CFO effective immediately. "Amy brings the right talents and experiences to the role as... Read similar

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Former Funzio Execs, Google PM Launch Wormhole Games

techcrunch.com Kim-Mai Cutler 128 days ago

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A former Funzio executive and a former Google product manager are trying their hands at the mobile gaming world again. Jamil Moledina, who was a vice president of business development at Funzio, and led EA’s publishing efforts, has partnered with ex-Googler James Kelm to start Wormhole Games. They expect to launch their first title in the second quarter of this year. While they aren’t giving a sneak preview of the game, expect it to also be in the midcore segment that Funzio targeted. “We’ve put a lot of thought into genres that have many years of success that have been... Read similar

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Key Twitter Execs Given New Roles As The Company Paves The Road To An IPO

techcrunch.com Catherine Shu 154 days ago

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Two key Twitter executives got new titles today as the company moves toward its highly anticipated IPO. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo confirmed that Mike Gupta has taken over as CFO from Ali Rowghani, who is leaving that position to assume his new role as Twitter's chief operating officer.Read similar

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Google's Director Of Privacy Alma Whitten Steps Down

techcrunch.com Frederic Lardinois 51 days ago

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carnegie mellon

view cars

As Forbes first reported this afternoon, Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy for product and engineering, has decided to step down from her current position. Google has now confirmed this. Whitten joined Google 10 years ago and oversaw the company’s privacy policies during a tumultuous time when its Street View cars were accused of spying on people’s Wi-Fi networks and Google decided to consolidate its over 70 privacy policies under a single document. Whitten has a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon, where her thesis looked into “Making Security Usable.” She spent ... Read similar

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Facebook Has A New CTO (FB)

www.businessinsider.com Owen Thomas 69 days ago

chief technology officer

Facebook has named Mike Schroepfer its chief technology officer, AllThingsD reports. On paper, Schroepfer is assuming the position Bret Taylor held until he left Facebook last year to found a startup. But it sounds like this title bump is more about recognizing Schroepfer's importance to the company than changing his job. "Mike Schroepfer’s new designation as Facebook’s CTO reflects the unique and important role he plays across the company," a spokesperson told AllThingsD. Taylor was a much more product-focused CTO, playing a key role in the launch of Facebook's Open Graph tec... Read similar

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With IPO Possibly On Deck, Eventbrite Hires eBay And Yahoo Veteran Mark Rubash As CFO

techcrunch.com Colleen Taylor 51 days ago

silicon valley veteran

Eventbrite, the event planning and ticketing platform, has hired Silicon Valley veteran Mark Rubash to serve as its first-ever CFO.Rubash has served in high-profile financial roles for some 20 years. His most recent high-profile CFO role was at Shutterfly, the publicly-traded photo-sharing company where he headed up financial operations from November 2007 to February 2012. His resume also includes time as a Senior Vice President of Finance at Yahoo, and the VP of Finance and investor relations at eBay.Read similar

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Meet Page Howe, A Man Who Made Millions Selling 2 Of The World's Most Expensive Domain Names

www.businessinsider.com Alyson Shontell 143 days ago

chris ambler

internet corporation for assigned names and numbers

university of redlands

liberal arts school

sociology courses

Page Howe hasn't always been lucky in business. But in 2007, he struck gold when two domain names his company owned were acquired for more than $1 million each.He sold Seniors.com, which he purchased for $100,000, for $1.8 million (or $1.5 million after commission). A few months later, he sold Guy.com for $1 million. He had only owned the domain for about a month. Howe first came to our attention when we were digging through the most expensive domain names of all time. DNJournal's August 2008 cover story reveals how the failed dotcom chairman cashed in big with a domain business.Howe was born ... Read similar

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EA responds to “Worst Company in America” poll

www.slashgear.com Craig Lloyd 48 days ago

Electronic Arts has been taking a lot of heat lately, mostly over the recent SimCity fiasco that left many gamers unable to play the game, which led the company to the semi-final round of The Consumerist‘s “Worst Company in America” poll. However, EA isn’t taking all of its criticism lying down. Chief Operating Officer Peter Read The Full StoryRead similar

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Google's $100 Million Man: The Neal Mohan Story

www.businessinsider.com Nicholas Carlson 47 days ago

Two years ago, Twitter was in disarray. On April 14, 2011, Fortune's Jessi Hempel blasted Twitter for failing to launch exciting new products, generate meaningful revenues, or hang on to executive talent. None of this was news to Twitter's board members or CEO Dick Costolo, of course. They'd spent the months prior trying to turn Twitter into "a real company" after years of neglectful management. The first step: hire a chief product officer. The board wanted someone who could fix the company's internal turmoil, revamp its product lineup, and get advertisers spending billi... Read similar

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Co-Founder Jeremy Allaire Will Step Down As CEO Of Brightcove, David Mendels To Take Over

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 112 days ago

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brightcove

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Brightcove co-founder Jeremy Allaire plans to step down from his role as CEO, according to the company's fourth quarter earnings report.Allaire will continue to serve as the CEO during the "transition period" of the first quarter of the fiscal year, and will then become executive chairman of the board, where the company says he will "continue to be actively involved in the company's strategic planning, product development and key customer relationships." David Mendels, who's currently the company's president and chief operating officer, will take Allaire's place as CEO.Read similar

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Luxola Raises Series A, Pulls Former PopSugar Director Christine Ng To Singapore

techcrunch.com Victoria Ho 48 days ago

countries in southeast asia

national research foundation

singapore singapore

product efforts

christine ng

Singapore beauty e-tailer, Luxola, just raised its Series A round from GREE Ventures. The amount was undisclosed, but has been rumored to be in the region of $2 million. The company carries about 60 brands of cosmetics and beauty products on its website, and ships to countries in Southeast Asia like Singapore and Malaysia. Its site was launched in September 2012, and it had previously raised a seed round of about $596,820 (S$740,000) from Wavemaker Labs and Singapore government fund, the National Research Foundation. Its initial angel round was about $423,460 ($525,000), according to CEO and f... Read similar

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FuzeBox Hires Google's Amritansh Raghav And Skype's Eran Shtiegman To Lead Product And Engineering

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 69 days ago

chief security officer

former engineering

raghav

google engine

senior vice president

Video conferencing company FuzeBox is announcing two big hires today — Amritansh Raghav, former engineering director for Google Compute Engine, and Eran Shtiegman, a former director of product management at Skype (where he worked on social products and ads).Raghav is the company's new chief security officer and senior vice president of engineering, while Shtiegman will be the vice president of product and user experience.Read similar

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Encouraging Female Engineers Is Key To Facebook's Recruitment Strategy

techcrunch.com Billy Gallagher 32 days ago

chief technology officer

Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer and Director of Engineering Jocelyn Goldfein spoke at the she++ conference today, making Facebook by far the most represented company at the Stanford conference.Their public remarks and comments shed light on Facebook’s aggressive strategy to recruit talented engineers to join their “deep bench” -- the company’s greatest asset, according to Goldstein.Read similar

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EA CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down, Larry Probst Becomes Executive Chairman

techcrunch.com Kim-Mai Cutler 66 days ago

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larry probst

leadership transition

electronic arts inc

redwood city calif

EA’s CEO John Riccitiello has just submitted his letter of resignation to the company’s board. He’s stepping down on March 30 and Larry Probst is stepping in as Executive Chairman. Updating…. Electronic Arts Announces Change in Executive Leadership Larry Probst Appointed Executive Chairman, Effective Immediately Company Updates 2013 Fiscal Outlook REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – March 18, 2013 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced that John Riccitiello will step down as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors, effective March 30. The Board... Read similar

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GoDaddy Has A New CEO: Ex-Yahoo Blake Irving

techcrunch.com Ingrid Lunden 163 days ago

web domain registration

GoDaddy, the web-domain registration and hosting company with some 11 million users, is today announcing a new CEO, Blake Irving. Irving's most recent, high-profile role prior to this had been as chief product officer at Yahoo, but he left in April 2012 -- before the reign of Marissa Mayer and around the time that about 2,000 product people were laid off from the company, largely from his division.Read similar

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Apple’s Peter Oppenheimer Is Highest Paid Finance Chief

bits.blogs.nytimes.com By BRIAN X. CHEN 15 days ago

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chief financial officer

billions of dollars

Apple's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, who has helped the company sidestep billions of dollars in taxes, was the highest paid C.F.O. of 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News.Read similar

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Warren Buffett Joins Twitter

feeds.mashable.com Seth Fiegerman 21 days ago

university of nebraska omaha

Warren Buffett has finally joined Twitter.Buffett sent out his first tweet from @warrenbuffett while being interviewed by Fortune's Pattie Sellers at the University of Nebraska Omaha:Warren is in the house.— Warren Buffett (@WarrenBuffett) May 2, 2013When asked if he understood Twitter, he said "so-so," but noted that "the co-founder [Ev Williams] came from Nebraska so it can't be all bad." After he posted the first tweet, Buffett joked, "Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?"Often referred to as the "Oracle of Omaha," Buffett made a fortune through his savvy investments at Ber... Read similar

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