Career Moves: April 27, 2007

Authored by dmw on April 27, 2007 - 12:44pm.

Baltimore-based Millennial Media, a provider of cross-platform mobile advertising services, has named Stephen Root as its COO. Most recently, Root served as the COO of Baltimore-based Advertising.com and previously as a senior vice president at Dulles-based AOL, helping to orchestrate AOL's $435 million acquisition of Advertising.com in 2004.

http://www.millennialmedia.com/

EMI Group, the British music company, has hired Roger Ames, a former chairman of Warner Music Group, to revive its North American operation. Mr. Ames will oversee the company's labels in the United States, including the Capitol Music Group and Blue Note Records.
http://www.emigroup.com

Atari, Inc., an interactive entertainment company, today announced the appointment of Jean- Michel Perbet to the Company's Board of Directors, bringing the total number of directors to eight. Mr. Perbet is a Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Infogrames Entertainment SA, the Company's majority shareholder, and is the President of Atari Europe, which is owned by Infogrames.
http://www.atari.com/

Andrea Wong, who most recently served as Executive Vice President of Alternative Programming, Specials and Late-Night, ABC Entertainment, has been named the new President & CEO of Lifetime Entertainment Services, it was announced by Anne Sweeney, Co-chair Disney Media Networks and President, Disney-ABC Television Group, and John Conomikes, Director, The Hearst Corporation.
http://www.lifetime.com