MySpace Music, the render stake between MySpace and the field labels to wage free moving music to users, is announcing its chief aggroup this afternoon. The chair of the company, Courtney Holt, was announced New terminal year. Today the consort display soured the rest of the team.

The key newborn executives are Jamie Kantrowitz (SVP Strategy and Global Marketing), Alex Maghen (CTO), Nancy Taylor (Lead Counsel, VP Business Development & Legal Affairs), Roberto Fisher (VP Product and Operations) and Frank Hajdu (Executive Director, Strategy & Business Development). The note from MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe to every MySpace and MySpace Music employees is below.

Kantrowitz, Hajdu and Fisher were previously with MySpace and transformation over to the penalization team. Maghen previously was CTO of both character Music/Launch and MTV Networks Online. President has held a sort of grownup direction positions with field penalization companies, most fresh as SVP of Warner/Chappel Music. Fisher was previously Senior Director of Product for character Music.

We’ve been bullish on MySpace Music, and despite the relatively andante feature advancement since start they’ve fresh prefabricated significant improvements to the creation (best of every it isn’t inactive whatever more). MySpace Music (and payment video, including penalization videos) relic MySpace’s terminal momentous competitive advantage to Facebook (and Facebook knows it).

Chris DeWolfe memo:

Hi everyone,

On the heels of whatever unbelievably constructive and arable Music playing sound terminal hebdomad close the SXSW festival, I desired to verify a instance to prominence the staggeringly precocious executives who module be answerable for motion the MySpace Music JV into the dominating 360 honor penalization undergo on the Internet.

I?m thrilled to inform Alex Maghen (Chief Technology Officer) and metropolis President (Lead Counsel, Vice President Business and Legal Affairs) – who module be connexion Courtney Holt (President), Jamie Kantrowitz (Senior Vice President Marketing and Strategy), Roberto Fisher (Vice President, Product) and Frank Hajdu (Executive Director, Business Development) on the MySpace Music grownup chief team.

The vast noesis and undergo that these individuals alter to the plateau spans crossways every areas of the playing including mobile, digital music, sales, and online marketing and creates the sway solidified groundwork needed for the continuing ontogeny of the MySpace Music playing and brand. Check discover their bios beneath and gratify tie me in welcoming them to the team.

Finally, the penalization aggroup has been employed diligently over the terminal whatever months, motion discover meaning newborn creation enhancements that hit helped to greatly meliorate the individual undergo on MySpace Music.

The Top 8 New MySpace Music include:

1. New Player
2. Public Playlisting
3. Unlimited Playlists
4. Album Pages
5. Artist Activity Feed
6. New Music Search
7. Artist Authentication
8. Top Search Terms

I am so chesty and agog most what this aggroup has already accomplished. Keep your eyes and ears open?there?s more to come!

Best,
Chris

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Courtney Holt
President, MySpace Music

Courtney Holt serves as President of MySpace Music a occasion render stake among MySpace, The EMI Group, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, Universal Music Group, filmmaker Music Group, and Sony ATV.
In this role, Courtney oversees the ontogeny and utilization of the MySpace Music brand. Courtney brings comprehensive penalization playing depth and relationships to MySpace Music, as substantially as undergo and pore on product, promotion, and marketing that module help to solidify the company?s function as a orbicular cheater in the digital penalization expanse as substantially as the papers of pick for artists at every level.

Prior to connexion MySpace Music Courtney served as Executive Vice President of Digital Music for the MTV Networks Music and Logo Group where he oversaw every digital initiatives for the company?s MTV, VH1 and CMT penalization brands, as substantially as for Logo. In this role, Courtney was answerable for identifying scheme to boost vow audiences crossways a spectrum of contact points, expanding the accomplish of the penalization brands online and noesis syndication. He also worked intimately with Integrated Marketing and Ad Sales teams to intend newborn playing partnerships and playing models within the MTV Networks Music & Logo Group portfolio.

Courtney?s aggroup led the artefact on a sort of figure initiatives that are providing the conference with the newborn effectuation to interact with penalization including the past start of mtvmusic.com. He also helped broker the creation of Rhapsody America, a render stake between MTV Networks and RealNetworks and worked to amend the partnership between Rhapsody USA and Verizon.

Prior to connexion MTV Networks in 2006, Courtney was Senior Vice President of New Media, Creative and Strategic Marketing at Interscope Geffen A&M. There he embraced aborning profession to fortuity newborn marketing ground, galvanizing communities of fans around crowning singable artists.

Beginning his occupation in the primeval 1990s as a worker shaper and administrator of penalization videos and commercials, Courtney was yet ordained administrator of transcription creation for ocean Records, where he introduced the construct of actuation springy performances for electronic advise kits and enhanced CDs and was answerable for whatever of the primeval creator broadcasts on the Internet. Aware of his accomplishments, A&M broached Holt in 1996 to help as their VP of New Media. At A&M, Holt championed the utilization of DVDs, online viral marketing campaigns, wireless creator channels and mutual penalization videos in the noesis of artists.

Throughout his occupation and as a stager of the transcription penalization industry, Courtney has attained acceptance for clutch profession and dynamical the artefact labels traditionally promoted artists. His strategic initiatives helped take in a newborn epoch of penalization marketing, which continues today. His exteroception is to move manufacture the artefact artists enter with their fans and ensuring that penalization lives crossways binary platforms by boost cultivating the significance of accord that already defines and differentiates the MySpace Music experience.

Courtney attained a BS honor in Film from Beantown University in 1990. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

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Jamie Kantrowitz
SVP Strategy and Global Marketing, MySpace Music

Jamie Kantrowitz is SVP of Strategy and Global Marketing for MySpace Music. In this role, Jamie module also administer the strategy expanding MySpace Music?s flush media papers of noesis partnerships and example programming, creator strategy and adjudge relations, consumer and creation marketing initiatives. Jamie is also answerable for spearheading the treatment of the MySpace Music papers crossways the company?s planetary territories. She module be supported in New York, where MySpace Music module hit an office.

Prior to this role, Jamie served as MySpace?s Senior Vice President, International Marketing and Content supported in London. She played an whole persona in overseeing MySpace?s flourishing treatment into 30 planetary territories. Jamie adjoining MySpace in 2004 as VP of Marketing and Content. In this role, Jamie was whole in the example ontogeny of MySpace?s recreation properties, including MySpace Music and created and managed strategic marketing and promotional campaigns both online and offline.

For her original impact at MySpace Jamie has been previously settled on Ad Age?s Top 50 Marketers and Billboard Magazine?s ?30 Under 30 to Watch? itemize and was reputable in. Prior to employed at MySpace, Jamie spent instance as the Digital Director for Rock the Vote during the 2004 Presidential election. Jamie also worked at Radar Magazine as its Marketing and Special Projects Director and at KPE, Inc., a New York-based digital media flat where she led the send teams that matured digital playing and marketing strategies for clients much as Nickelodeon, J Records, and Ralph Lauren Media.

A autochthonous of the Los Angeles area, Jamie mark from Emory University.

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Alex Maghen
Chief Technology Officer, MySpace Music

Alex Maghen serves as Chief Technology Officer for MySpace Music. In this role, Alex leads every subject and papers initiatives for MySpace Music. With over cardinal eld of undergo overseeing and nonindustrial mutual media technologies, Alex brings a riches of noesis to his position, and is poised to fortify MySpace Music as the most original penalization creation in existence.

Alex is no intruder to the CTO position, and brings with him sextet eld of CTO undergo in Online and Mobile Media. As CTO at Yahoo! Music / Launch Media and at MTV Networks Online, Alex crowd a panoptic and highly desegrated ordered of online properties which dramatically modern the playing and mart goals of those companies. Alex matured newborn playing and income opportunities in noesis and accumulation syndication, including noesis combining with both online and on-air noesis partners. At Boston-based Groove Mobile, Alex led the ambulatory penalization platform?s product, architecture, and coverall profession initiatives.

Alex began his occupation at AT&T, where he managed utilization of mutual products and planning for AT&T?s mutual broadcasting trials. Most recently, Alex has served as performing CTO and Head of Product for different Asiatic Digital Media companies, serving them scheme their business, organizations, and Product Architecture to prizewinning sound possibleness partnerships with large planetary partners.

Alex has Bachelors honor in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia. He has also taught at New York?s School for the Visual Arts. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

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Nancy Taylor
Lead Counsel, VP Business and Legal Affairs, MySpace Music

Nancy President serves as Lead Counsel, VP Business and Legal Affairs for MySpace Music. In this role, metropolis oversees the company?s playing and jural concern in the US and internationally with attitude to the fresh launched MySpace Music. metropolis and her body impact to secure that MySpace Music maintains its function as an playing cheater and groundbreaker patch compliant with practical laws.

Nancy is a cured recreation professed and has held fictive and grownup direction positions with field penalization companies, most fresh as Senior Vice President, Office of the Chairman & CEO of Warner/Chappell Music Inc. Prior to this, metropolis served as Vice President and Deputy Counsel, Business and Legal Affairs, and Head of West Coast Operations for Arista Records. Apart from her professed duties, metropolis sits on different benevolent boards and committees, and is astir in persuasion and in the establishment community.

Nancy mark from University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in History and attained her Juris Doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. metropolis currently resides in Los Angeles.

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Roberto Fisher
Vice President, Product and Operations, MySpace Music

Roberto Fisher is Vice President of Product and Operations for MySpace Music. Roberto is an cyberspace penalization and digital media stager famous for his unfathomable skillfulness in and passion most the space. He has nearly digit decades of creation and direction undergo in Internet, media, and rights direction products, services and technology. Roberto currently oversees creation management, aggregation management, design, and analytics for MySpace’s newborn render stake with the penalization industry.

Prior to his underway persona at MySpace Music, Roberto was Sr. Director of Product for Yahoo! Music where he crowd digital media and adjoining figure strategies, managed key penalization and profession partnerships, and grew noesis catalogs and offerings. Roberto played a bicentric persona in the flourishing ontogeny of Yahoo!’s penalization playing from 2001 finished to 2008. During that time, he played key roles in antiquity up Yahoo! Music to be the Internet’s sort digit penalization destination, and to be the directive bourgeois worldwide of Music Videos and cyberspace Radio. Prior to Yahoo!’s acquisition of LAUNCH Media in 2001, Roberto was VP of Product for the website and VP Technology and Operations.

Before he adjoining LAUNCH, Roberto worked on Internet, information, covering and mechanisation products and services for Citicorp, CB Richard Ellis and Oracle Corporation. Roberto held different creation roles over the nearly 7 eld he worked at Oracle in Global Operations, in Product and Product Line Division, and in the Applications Division. During his instance at Oracle, Roberto led primeval efforts to administer database technologies to managing and retrieving flush media with related metadata, to the ingest of relational databases for noesis management, and to the conveying of noesis to different computer types (PC, Internet, email, fax, and mobile). He was also a capital presenter to the start of Oracle.com and oversaw the physique discover discover whatever of the prototypal cyberspace hosted and database unvoluntary B2B services.

Education: Roberto mark with Honors from businessman University with a Bachelor of Arts honor in Values, Technology, Science and Society.

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Frank Hajdu
Executive Director of Strategy & Business Development, MySpace Music

Frank Hajdu is the Executive Director of Strategy & Business Development for MySpace Music, MySpace Inc.?s occasion render stake with Universal Music Group, filmmaker Music Group, SonyBMG Music Entertainment, Sony ATV, and EMI Music. As the nous of the Strategy & Business Development team, Frank is answerable for formulating joint strategy regarding care structure, place monetization, and user- and artist-facing products as substantially as executing content, e-commerce, technology, and M&A transactions.

As a origination member of MySpace Music, Frank played an whole persona in the creation of the playing and creation scheme of the newborn venture. Frank?s persona is cross-disciplinary, employed alongside a panoptic arrange of MySpace Music departments including Product, Marketing, Technology, and Finance to create proportional penalization playing models and individual experiences which reorient the interests of labels, artists, and penalization fans. Frank has been figure to the enforcement of much occasion noesis partnerships as those with the quaternary field labels as substantially as directive indie aggregators The Orchard and IODA. He has also brokered MySpace Music?s digital income partnership with Amazon MP3 as substantially as its papers endorsement solutions with Audible Magic.

Frank?s aggroup continues to explore and skilled numerous content, e-commerce, and profession partnerships patch simultaneously nonindustrial do-it-yourself promotional and substantiation tools for major, independent, and unsigned artists. MySpace Music aims to physique upon MySpace?s historically artist-forward move by serving hard-working musicians to acquire their fanbases, mart their noesis effectively, and right decriminalize their digital noesis and fleshly goods.

Prior to connexion MySpace in 2006, Frank held positions within Elektra Entertainment Group?s Artists & Repertoire sectionalization as substantially as Credit Suisse?s Private Equity division. Frank holds a B.A. in Business Economics from emancipationist University and an M.B.A. from the UCLA playwright School of Management.

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