Bellevue, WA-based Livemocha, the online language learning startup, said today it has appointed Michael Schutzler as its new CEO. Schutzler was previously the CEO of Classmates.com, a senior vice president at RealNetworks and Monster.com, and the founder of CEOSherpa, a business coaching firm. He succeeds Livemocha co-founder and former CEO Shirish Nadkarni, who will serve as chairman and chief strategy officer. Livemocha launched in 2007 as a global website and online community for language learning. The company has raised $14 million in venture funding from Maveron and August Capital since 2008.
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Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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