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Ad Veteran Michael Barrett Joins Millennial Media as New CEO

Peter Kafka covers media and technology, and their intersection, at Vox. Many of his stories can be found in his Kafka on Media newsletter, and he also hosts the Recode Media podcast.

Mobile ad network Millennial Media has hired ad veteran Michael Barrett as its new CEO. Barrett replaces Millennial’s founder Paul Palmieri, who will join New Enterprise Associates as a venture adviser. Barrett’s resume includes stints as chief revenue officer at Yahoo, AOL and Fox Interactive Media; he was also CEO at Admeld prior to that company’s acquisition by Google. In November, Millennial finished its acquisition of Jumptap, a rival ad network.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.