New CEO for Crimson Hexagon

Cambridge, MA-based Crimson Hexagon, a social media analytics startup, announced today that it has hired Patricia Gottesman as its president and chief executive officer. She joined the company as a member of the board in December, and replaces previous Crimson Hexagon CEO Scott Centurino, who started the position last April. Gottesman previously held marketing, operations, and product management positions during her 28-year tenure at Cablevision Systems (NYSE: [[ticker:CVC]]) and most recently worked as a technology and media consultant.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.