Om Malik has just broken the news that Heather Harde, senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Fox Interactive Media and a Harvard MBA, has been appointed as the new CEO of TechCrunch.
I’m not very familiar with American job titles as everyone seems to be a VP, EVP or SVP, but Heather seems to be a fairly senior person at Fox Interactive which makes me wonder:
- Why would TechCrunch require an M&A specialist?
- Is TechCrunch so big now that it needs such a senior hire as a CEO?
It’ll be interesting to see if TechCrunch do carry out any acquisitions over the next 6-12 months, although I doubt they need an M&A specialist to do this. Valuing sites is such a fuzzy area that there is no precise method and I’m not sure how much expertise Heather could really add.
Update: Announcement on TechCrunch
What?..a CEO…boy has the blogosphere changed.
What?..a CEO…boy has the blogosphere changed.
Maybe TechCruch try different way to beat the competitor
and make some new step on BLOGGING ^_*
Maybe they wanna compete with Google someday huhu , or maybe they afraid of my blog
Maybe they wanna compete with Google someday huhu , or maybe they afraid of my blog