Ypulse Youth Media Movers & Shakers
Posted by meredith on 02-08-2010
Today we bring you another installment of Youth Media Movers and Shakers. We’ve culled through industry publications looking for the recent executive placements we think you should know about. If you have executive news that you want us to highlight in our next “Movers and Shakers,” email me.
After just 10 months as president and CEO of Activision Blizzard’s Guitar Hero division, former Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig is packing up shop and relocating to online textbook rental startup Chegg where he will hold the same title. (ReadWriteWeb)
Animation industry veteran Kathy Page is appointed VP/Production, Hasbro Studios. She will oversee production for programming produced by the studio, much of which will be featured on the new network The Hub. Page was most recently VP/Animation, Sony Pictures Television. (Cynopsis Kids)
Nokia and education company Pearson have formed a joint venture in China dubbed Beijing Mobiledu Technologies to grow MobilEdu, the wireless education service that the Finnish mobile giant launched in China back in 2007…Elizabeth Knup, Pearson’s chief representative in China, said the joint venture will be an independent company, and Nokia and Pearson will just guide it in terms of its business direction. (Global Times)
AOL Inc.’s Bill Wilson is leaving as chief of content production after nine years with the Internet company and will be succeeded by David Eun, a veteran of Google Inc. and Time Warner Inc. Eun, 43, will oversee more than 80 Web sites, including Lemondrop and Politics Daily; Seed, the publishing platform for assigning and distributing freelance journalism; and video creator StudioNow.(BusinessWeek)
Chorion continues to grow its licensing team with the appointment of Lauren LaBumbard as Director/Retail Development. She will be responsible for expanding the presence of Chorion’s properties at key US retailers, as well as exploring direct to retail partnerships. (Cynopsis Kids)
Richard Dickson, the general manager credited with making Mattel Inc.’s Barbie doll brand fashionable again, is leaving the toy maker for a position that puts him in line for a shot at chief executive of New York clothing manufacturer Jones Apparel Group Inc. (Wall Street Journal)
MySpace Chief Product Officer Jason Hirschhorn will soon be leaving the company, as heard from multiple sources. Hirschhorn joined MySpace in April 2009 as part of the major executive shakeup that replaced the old guard, including long-time CEO Chris DeWolfe. After current CEO Owen Van Natta was chosen, Hirschhorn and COO Mike Jones were quickly brought on board to fill out the newly vacated roster. (TechCrunch)
The Jim Henson Company names Lisa O’Brien as Executive Director/Children’s Entertainment, reporting to Halle Stanford, EVP/Children’s Entertainment. O’Brien will work with Stanford to develop and produce new projects across all kid’s media, as well as provide promotional support for Henson’s existing long-form and short-form properties. O’Brien joins Henson from PBS Kids Sprout, where she worked with Henson on its short-form productions The Pajanimals and Musical Mornings with Coo, as well as co-creating/writing The Good Night Show and overseeing production of the channel’s branding elements, interstitials and promotional campaigns. (Cynopsis Kids)
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