Dan Rosensweig to be named Guitar Hero CEO
Quadrangle Group partner Dan Rosensweig will be named CEO and president of Activision Blizzard's Guitar Hero franchise, CNET News has confirmed.
The pending appointment was first reported Sunday evening on AllThingsDigital. Rosensweig's appointment will be announced Monday morning, according to people familiar with the decision.
New Guitar Hero CEO and Bruce Springsteen fan Dan Rosensweig.
(Credit: Dan Farber/CNET News)Rosensweig spent 18 years at Ziff-Davis in a variety of senior sales and publishing roles, the last one as CEO of ZDNet, before its acquisition by CNET Networks in 2000. He then served as CNET's president before becoming chief operating officer at Yahoo in 2002 during the Terry Semel era. He left Yahoo in 2006 and then joined Quadrangle Group, a private investment firm, in 2007.
Since moving over to Quadrangle, Rosensweig has been content to remain off the center stage, though he often has been mentioned as a possible CEO candidate. His name came up during interregnums both at Yahoo and Facebook. But the lure of the Guitar Hero job struck the right chord as Rosensweig is known to be passionate about music.
Charles Cooper has covered technology and business for more than 25 years. Before joining CNET News, he worked at the Associated Press, Computer & Software News, Computer Shopper, PC Week, and ZDNet. E-mail Charlie. 
If you want a good music game, stick with Rock Band. It was created by Harmonix, the original developers of Guitar Hero and themselves musicians. Guitar Hero is now a poor imitation of Rock Band.
- by bteam March 24, 2009 4:36 PM PDT
- Not wise to sell Dan short. He is a natural leader, very smart, very strategic, and he wouldn't do it if there wasn't real opportunity in the assignment.
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