Owen Van Natta

Owen Van Natta is the current CEO of the social networking website, MySpace. He formerly held the same position at the music website, Playlist. Before working at Playlist, Van Natta held an executive role at both Facebook and Amazon.TechCrunch: News Corp Pulls The Trigger: Owen Van Natta... (April 24, 2009)

Hired in 2005 as the chief operating officer, Van Natta was reassigned to the position of chief revenue officer and VP of operations at the organization in 2007. While at Facebook, he played a critical role in a deal with software giant Microsoft that resulted in a $240 million investment in the social networking site. Also, according to Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Van Natta played a key role in Facebook's expansion of its user-base. In 2008, Van Natta decided to leave the company to pursue at CEO position at the music site Playlist.AllThingsD: Owen Van Natta to Leave Facebook (February 19, 2008)

Upon the resignation of Chris DeWolf as CEO, and the reassignment of founder Tom Anderson, Owen Van Natta was named the chief executive officer of MySpace on April 24, 2009. The position would be effective immediately, and Van Natta will report to News Corp's Jonathan Miller.WSJ.com: Van Natta Named MySpace Chief (April 24, 2009)