Activision appoints former Yahoo COO to head of Guitar Hero unit
by JC Fletcher 
on Mar 23rd 2009 9:49AM
According to a
press release sent out by Activision this morning, Dan Rosensweig, former chief operating officer for Yahoo! and Ziff-Davis executive, is now the President of
Guitar Hero. This means that
Guitar Hero is now a sovereign nation, and we can expect a mass defection of teenagers. Oh, wait, the press release says that he's the President and CEO of Activision's
Guitar Hero business unit.
Rosensweig is now in charge of RedOctane, the former accessories maker and game rental service that is
now the division of Activision producing the
Guitar Hero games -- as well as, the press release notes, the "soon to be released
DJ Hero(TM)." Kai Huang, RedOctane's founder, will "continue working at RedOctane reporting to Mr. Rosensweig." Ouch.
