Ustream Snags Former Palm PR VP Lynn Fox

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

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We hear that former Palm Vice President of Public Relations Lynn Fox has given up on her “Consult Until-I-Find-Another-Job Consulting” plans and landed  a permanent gig at video streaming service Ustream. Her formal title will be VP of Corporate Communications and she will be reporting to Ustream CEO John Ham.

Sources say that Fox is the first in a series of new hires at Ustream, hires which should be announced formally in the next couple of weeks. Fox’s first day will be Tuesday, Sept. 7 and her primary duties will be leading all things related to PR, Events and Social Media.

It looks like Ustream is taking advantage of its $75m round of funding from Softbank and other investors earlier this year in order to ramp up their recruiting efforts and attract major talent like Fox.

Prior to Ustream, Fox had to honor of working in the upper echleons of communications departments at both Google and Apple. She left Palm shortly before the HP acquisition in June.

Company: Ustream
Website: ustream.tv
Launch Date: November 6, 2006
Funding: $104M

Ustream has created a network of diverse channels providing a platform for lifecasting and live video streaming of events online. Its platform empowers any individual, public figure or brand to stream to a global audience of unlimited size. Ustream offers free broadcasting and viewing platforms for the Web and mobile devices. The interactive functionality within Ustream enables real-time engagement with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and AIM.

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Person: Lynn Foxymax
Companies: Palm, Apple, Google, Ustream

Lynn was one of the handful of talents that Palm managed to snag from Apple prior to the launch of the Pre, having served as Apple’s Director of Mac PR from 2006 to 2008 (and their Director of Corporate PR from 2000 to 2004.) So, where’s Lynn headed next? No one’s quite sure — including Lynn, it seems. On her Facebook profile, her current employer is listed as “Consult Until-I-Find-Another-Job Consulting, LTD”, with a description reading: “I respectfully declined the opportunity...

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