TechCrunch Hires Fox Exec as CEO

TechCrunch has hired a CEO in order to continue to expand its editorial operations, site owner Michael Arrington announced over the weekend. Heather Harde, who currently serves as the senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions for Fox Interactive Media, would begin working for the blog at the end of the month.

She will run all business aspects of the site, while Arrington will focus on the editorial, he wrote in a blog post. "TechCrunch has grown faster than I could manage over the last couple of years," he wrote. "Heather's job will be to leverage the opportunities that we have sometimes let slip by, and to manage our organic and acquisition growth going forward."