Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Linden Lab Hires VPs, Snags Intuit Engineering VP

San Francisco-based Linden Lab, which operates the Second Life virtual world, said today that it has hired on two new executives. Linden Lab said that Brian Michon has been named Vice President of Core Devleopment, and Judy Wade has been named Vice President of Strategy and Emerging Business. Michon joins from Intuit, where he was VP of Engineering. He also was co-founder at Apps.com, and has served at Think New Ideas and Oracle. Wade was most recently Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Kapor Enterprises, and has also served at McKinsey & Company and Hambrecht & Quist.