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# My Top 4 Picks To  Become Head Of Google Music Plus A Dark Horse Candidate
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/my-top-5-picks-for-google-music-ceo-plus-1-dark-horse-candidate/
- Published: 2010-09-01T11:11:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-09-01T11:11:00.000Z
- Description: (UPDATED) The net has been filled with rumors about who Goolgle might choose to head its new music initiative. I have no illusions that Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/09/my-top-5-picks-for-google-music-ceo-plus-1-dark-horse-candidate.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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(UPDATED) 

The net has been filled with rumors about who Goolgle might choose to head its new music initiative. I have no illusions that Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page pay any more attention to what I think than Tila Tequila does to writing meaningful lyrics, but I couldn't help but offer my own list of candidates.

**My Top Picks To Head Google Music** 

(in no particular order)

- **Ted Cohen** – One of the recorded music industry's first digital executives, Cohen knows all of the roadblocks that Google faces and the people that will knock them over.
- **Ian Rogers** – From Yahoo! to Topspin, Ian Rogers has become the defacto voice of music tech. He's smart, capable and well liked.
- **Greg Scholl** – He's an executive at NBC Universal now, but before that, he was president and CEO of The Orchard. That means he knows music, digital and how to survive in a public traded company.
- **Michael Robertson –** He helped start it all with MP3.com and most of his ventures since have been music tech based. He sold Gizmo5 to Google last year, so they certainly know his work.

**My Dark Horse Candidate**

- **Scott Ambrose-Reilly** – I know, it's hard to imagine Google hiring anyone who is nicknamed "Bullethead" and who used to manage Mojo Nixon. But this guys digital music roots run deep – from the early eMusic through most of the then groundbreaking licencing deals that launched Amazon MP3.