Social networking giant MySpace has tapped former FaceBook COO and chief revenue officer Owen Van Natta to take over the CEO position from founder Chris DeWolfe, whose departure was announced just last week.
Van Natta spent three years as FaceBook’s COO and then chief revenue officer, where he helped broker Microsoft’s $240 million investment in Facebook; before that, he worked as a deal-maker at Amazon.com. Van Natta left FaceBook in early 2008 after butting heads with Facebook CEo Mark Zuckerberg, and took the top job at California online music outfit Playlist.com. Van Natta takes over the MySpace top chair effective immediately.
