Ruckus Network, a company that offers legal music and movie downloads to college students, has named a new chief executive officer—Michael Bebel, formerly the president and chief operating officer of Ruckus’s adversary, Napster.
In hiring Mr. Bebel, the company appears to be making something of a directional shift. Ruckus had pointed to the academic background of its previous CEO—William J. Raduchel, formerly a professor of economics at Harvard University—as a sign that the company was uniquely attuned to the needs of college and university officials. Mr. Bebel, by contrast, is something of a music-industry insider: He has held senior positions at Universal Studios and Pressplay, a digital-music venture created by Universal and Sony. —Brock Read
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