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		<title>Digital Musical Chairs at MySpace and FIM Still Going&#8211;Exec Departures and More&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As BoomTown previously reported, there have been a lot of exec departures and shifts at Fox Interactive Media and its MySpace unit, which seem to be continuing.

Especially departures, it seems, as the massive restructuring of the digital units of News Corp. keeps shaking out.

Top engineer Max Engel, who ran the social networking site's open initiatives, for example, is leaving to join the new stealth start-up being helmed by ex-MySpace employees, including former COO Amit Kapur.

And there are a lot of others too.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090617/myspace-after-the-layoffs-heres-whats-what-and-whats-next/">BoomTown previously reported</a>, there have been a lot of exec moves at Fox Interactive Media and its MySpace unit, which seem to be continuing.</p>
<p>Especially departures, it seems, as the massive restructuring of the digital units of News Corp. (NWS) keeps shaking out.</p>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/max_engel-150x150jpg.jpeg"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/max_engel-150x150jpg.jpeg" alt="max_engel-150x150jpg" title="max_engel-150x150jpg" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-full wp-image-15667" /></a></p>
<p>Top engineer Max Engel (pictured here), who ran the social networking site&#8217;s open initiatives, for example, is leaving to join the new stealth start-up being helmed by ex-MySpace employees, <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090303/kapur-stepping-down-as-myspace-coo/">including former COO Amit Kapur</a>.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.8bitkid.com/2009/07/02/farewell-myspace/">blog post on his Web site</a> yesterday, titled &#8220;Farewell, MySpace&#8230;,&#8221; Engel did not say where he was headed, but noted:</p>
<p>&#8220;While MySpace presented opportunities through their scale and reach, I&#8217;ve spent the past 3 years at large companies, and now I&#8217;m ready to go small and give the startup life a try.&#8221;</p>
<p>In addition, while I was poking around on this story, sources also told me that there are more higher-level departures in the works, including those whom the new team of execs at Beverly Hills, Calif.-based MySpace had kept in place, despite a recent round of layoffs.</p>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/06469e8jpg.jpeg"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/06469e8jpg.jpeg" alt="06469e8jpg" title="06469e8jpg" width="80" height="80" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-15668" /></a></p>
<p>Those execs include Tom Andrus (pictured here), who was a key product exec in the last regime at MySpace, sources said, but is poised to go. His former charge was as SVP of product management under MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson.</p>
<p>While Anderson remains at MySpace, his role has been changed and product is now headed by Jason Hirschhorn, and Andrus reportedly decided recently that he did not want to stay at the company in a lesser role.</p>
<p>Andrus is also listed as a developer at Gray Ghost Ventures on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tom-andrus/0/215/185">LinkedIn</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/travis_katz_110524jpg1.jpeg"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/travis_katz_110524jpg1-150x150.jpg" alt="travis_katz_110524jpg1" title="travis_katz_110524jpg1" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-15678" /></a></p>
<p>In the longer term, sources said it is also likely that once he completes the work to downsize MySpace&#8217;s international operations&#8211;which were cut drastically&#8211;its head, Travis Katz (pictured here), will move on in the fall.</p>
<p>While some thought <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090623/confirmed-travis-katz-remains-at-myspace-as-international-head/">he would leave during MySpace&#8217;s international layoffs several weeks ago, he did not</a>, given all the work involved in closing down a lot of operations there after 67 percent the staff abroad was cut.</p>
<p>Katz, sources said, is preparing to move to California in the next several weeks and is interested in working for a start-up, after many years at News Corp.</p>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/jamie4_smallerjpg.jpeg"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/jamie4_smallerjpg-150x150.jpg" alt="jamie4_smallerjpg" title="jamie4_smallerjpg" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15669" /></a></p>
<p>Lastly, on the goodbye train, is MySpace Music&#8217;s SVP Strategy and Global Marketing, Jamie Kantrowitz (pictured here).</p>
<p>She had previously worked as a top exec in MySpace&#8217;s international business.</p>
<p>Not everyone is bidding adieu, though, although they are moving chairs.</p>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/pic_01jpg.jpeg"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/pic_01jpg.jpeg" alt="pic_01jpg" title="pic_01jpg" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-full wp-image-15670" /></a></p>
<p>Dan Fawcett (pictured here), president of Fox Digital Media, is likely to be moving to work with News Corp. digital head Jon Miller as his general counsel and right-hand man at the Fox Interactive Media division.</p>
<p>The former GC, Mike Angus, has moved to FIM&#8217;s Fox Audience Network, run by Adam Bain.</p>
<p>FIM, of course, is being rejiggered into a new smaller unit, as I previously reported, and is likely to be renamed simply the Digital Media Group.</p>
<p>(Full disclosure: FIM is owned by News Corp., which also owns Dow Jones&#8211;owner of this site.)</p>
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