Top Hires of the Day: Palmer to Wikia, Weissman to Benchmark Capital, Grosse to TaskRabbit
Craig Palmer, former president and CEO of Gracenote, joined Wikia as CEO. Jennifer Betka, former strategic marketing consultant for media companies, joined Wikia as Senior VP of Marketing.
Craig Palmer, CEO
Twitter: @craiglpalmer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/craig-palmer/32/9a1/725
Jennifer Betka, SVP of Marketing
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferbetka
Wikia
Twitter: @wikia
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wikia
Blog: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Blog:Wikia_Staff_Blog
Website: http://www.wikia.com/Wikia
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Craig Weissman, former Salesforce CTO, joined Benchmark Capital as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to focus on big data opportunities.
Craig Weissman, EIR
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/craigdweissman
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=663665903
Benchmark Capital
Website: http://www.benchmark.com/
Twitter: @benchmark
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Eric Grosse, former Hotwire CEO, is TaskRabbit's new CEO. Founder Leah Busque, former CEO, will continue to work at TaskRabbit, but will focus on engineering and product, while Eric will focus on operations and scaling the business.
Eric Grosse, CEO
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-grosse/2/66/64
TaskRabbit
Website: http://www.taskrabbit.com/
Twitter: @TaskRabbit
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TaskRabbit
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/taskrabbit