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Digital
Topspin boss not going to Google, OK?
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 6 September 2010
So, following the recent news that Google were busy searching for an exec to head up its much mooted new digital music service, some people – well, at least one person it seems – speculated that Ian Rogers, boss of digital marketing specialists Topspin, might be headhunted by the web giant. Presumably the speculators thought Rogers would be a top target for Google given his past work for AOL and Yahoo!, other techie majors who have tried (generally unsuccessfully) to have a share of the digital music pie.
But Rogers is very clear that he has no intention of leaving Topspin just yet. He blogged last week: “Rest assured, I can happily report I’m not leaving Topspin for Google or any place else (and hopefully the Topspin board feels the same!). Google is certainly an interesting company and I’d love to see how they compare to my AOL and Yahoo! experience – I actually get a kick out of seeing how these big companies run (or don’t, as the case may be), but there is nothing on my mind at the moment aside from working with the killer Topspin team to build the marketing and retail platform used by every professional in the music business”.