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Chris DeWolfe in his MySpace office in February 2008.

Chris DeWolfe (born 1966) is one of the creators of MySpace (along with Tom Anderson). He is the former CEO of MySpace. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1988, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, and the University of Southern California in 1997. He has the sixth account ever made on the website.

On April 22, 2009, News Corp. announced DeWolfe would step down as CEO and will be a strategic adviser to MySpace and serve on the board of MySpace China. The former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta replaced him.^[1]

Chris Dewolfe has been profiled in many major publications such as Fortune^[2] and BusinessWeek^[3].

References

1. ^ Garrahan, Matthew (2009-10-22). "MySpace abandons race with Facebook". FT.com. The Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/743f63c6-bea1-11de-b4ab-00144feab49a.html. Retrieved 2009-11-10. 
2. ^ "Portraits of power | Chris DeWolfe". Fortune. Cable News Network. 2006. http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/portraitsofpower/17.html. Retrieved 2009-11-10. 
3. ^ Bartiromo, Maria (2008-05-21). "Facetime with Chris DeWolfe". BusinessWeek. The McGraw-Hill Companies. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_22/b4086025019774.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-10.