Industry Moves: Zynga; Fairchild; Emmis; E!; Microsoft; FishBowl; Mesa; Publicis Seattle

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Industry Moves: Zynga; Fairchild; Emmis; E!; Microsoft; FishBowl; Mesa; Publicis Seattle

—Zynga: The FarmVille creator has hired Steven Chiang as president of the development studios, CEO Marc Pincus announced on his blog this week. Chiang co-founded EA-owned Tiburon Entertainment, the studio best known for the Madden NFL franchise. A longtime EA executive, he was most recently SVP and group GM for EA Sports.

—Fairchild Fashion Group: Patrick McCarthy, chairman and editorial director of Condé Nast’s Fairchild Fashion Group and de facto editor of the fashion magazine W is leaving the company at year’s end. He joined Fairchild as a reporter in 1977, rising to chairman and editorial director in 1997.

—Emmis Communications: One we missed earlier this month: Greg Loewen added president of Emmis Publishing to his role as chief strategy officer. The units regional and city mags include Texas Monthly and Los Angeles. Loewen replaced Gary Thoe, who left to focus on his family business, MidCountry Media, Inc. Loewen joined Emmis in 2007 from the Toronto Star, where he was VP-digital media and strategy.

—E!: Former Fox Business Network executive Bruce Perlmutter joins the newly created role of SVP of news and online. He’ll oversee the news division across all platforms, including E! News, Daily 10, E! Online and E! News Now. Perlmutter has also worked as a senior executive producer for MSNBC and CNN.

—Microsoft: Xiao Chen, MSN China’s VP of sales is leaving at the end of March to start up his own company, Reuters reports. He had been with the Chinese MSN venture since it it launched in 2005.

—FishBowl Worldwide Media: Susan Levison has joined as EVP of creative affairs, reporting to President and CEO Bruce Gersh. Levison comes from Fox Broadcasting, where she most recently was SVP of comedy development.

—Mesa: Mesa has opened a London office and chosen Co-Managing Partner Jerome Levy to head it. Newly appointed Managing Director Mark Labovitch will join him in launching the company’s European operations. Labovitch comes from Independent News & Media, where he was group director and CEO of Independent Digital Media.

—Publicis Seattle: Roger Baxter joins the agency as EVP and chief strategy officer. Previously, he was managing partner of Hall & Partners.

Amanda Natividad

@amandanat Mar 19, 2010 1:37 AM ET

Posted In: Industry Moves Roundup

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I really hope that the British Authorities go after her to the fullest extent of the law and put her in jail. That is where she belongs. Otherwise, she will just go someplace else and do this again… and over and over! She is a crook and belongs in Jail for a long time. And for those of you who post about people who are doing worse things than Domecq, well, she is the ISSUE on this subject. SHE is the one who has just ripped off a large number of people with outright lies about what she was providing the public, lied about her past, lied to the investors and used the money for her personal pleasure while screwing the investors and the employees. And this is the 2nd time that we know of that she has done this.

Same approach as her father in jail for tax fraud and stealing from his company: see here:
http://www.decanter.com/news/170268.html

Julie Meyer

That’s my girl.

Big Rupe

it’s extraordinary.. because you’d never guess from that photograph that she was a smug stupid egocentric pain in the arse, would you?

Biggles

Small beer in the context of the bigger governance issues, but the ‘insignificant valuation’ of employee stock options is a non-story. It’s good to have a low value at the point the options are granted, because then (a) employees don’t have to pay much to get them, or (b) if they’re given away, don’t create an immediate income tax liability. The idea is that they have little cost now, but could be worth something in the future. Although clearly things didn’t work out that way…

anon

£66m in operating losses in 2008 against a few million in revenue. Domecq is not in jail yet? First, the New Horizons calamity, then SpinVox, and who can imagine what is next for this wunderkind.

Shaden Freude

Domecq is an amateur compared to Ryan Wuerch of Motricity.

http://moconews.net/article/419-the-man-behind-motricitys-250-million-ipo/

mocoholic

OMG Julie Meyer should have kept her mouth shut and just said NO COMMENT. She’s too fascinated with the lives of the euro trash to ever be objective even when she should have more business sense.

connor sweetman

Now, isn’t this exactly what the former Domecq Employees were telling EVERYBODY! Just remember this is NOT the first time! I really hope that British Laws aren’t easy on her. How she was able to evade the Law in New York still totally amazes me. There were two of us who pressed criminal charges against her in New York, and yet she just left the country. And she was able to show up at Bankruptcy Court and leave the country again! This is still a story to watch. Let’s hope she doesn’t get away with this AGAIN! She should be ashamed of herself.

What a disastrous fall in disgrace! Such a high profile company undone by Domecq’s stupid actions and the power of the web! I just wonder if any suits follow these revelations?

none

These monies to the SpinVox CEO don’t seem like much when compared to the monies spent on Motricity’s CEO’s palaces and so forth. Guess he’s lucky Nuance didn’t buy Motricity, further that none of the deep pockets financing Motricity’s misadventures seem to be too concerned with getting any money back.

Josh

And what did Julie Meyer say!? Shows you what these Dragon’s Den people know about business doesn’t it. I see what she means by a nice problem to have. I wonder what share she got from the 600 pounds if any.

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-spinvox-investor-its-a-nice-problem-to-have/