Sonos Gets New CEO After App Disaster

Sonos today named interim CEO Tom Conrad arsenic its imperishable CEO, officially replacing Patrick Spence aft helium stepped down backmost successful January.


Spence was CEO of Sonos for 8 years, and helium oversaw the disastrous app redesign that disappointed Sonos customers owed to missing features and mediocre performance. Sonos had to hold merchandise launches successful bid to absorption connected fixing the app, and yet laid disconnected 100 employees.

Tom Conrad co-founded euphony work Pandora, and helium was vice president of merchandise astatine Snap and Chief Product Officer astatine Quibi. He besides served connected the Sonos committee earlier being appointed interim CEO. Sonos was searching for a replacement CEO, but Conrad has been palmy turning things astir astatine Sonos implicit the past six months.

Conrad has been named Sonos' CEO, and helium volition besides stay connected the Board of Directors.
"Following a broad and competitory search, the Board is assured that Tom is the champion idiosyncratic to pb Sonos into its adjacent section of delighting customers, spearheading innovation, and driving growth," said Julius Genachowski, Chair of the Board. "Over the past six months, Tom has earned the assurance of our employees, customers, partners and shareholders by restoring urgency and a heavy committedness to delivering ever-improving experiences. He has a compelling imaginativeness for Sonos' future, with beardown plans to harness exertion to payment our customers, arsenic AI and different advances reframe the scenery and unlock caller opportunities. We're energized by what Sonos' adjacent section holds for each our stakeholders."
Sonos was capable to amended its app and motorboat the Sonos Ace headphones and the Sonos Arc Ultra soundbar nether Conrad's leadership. Conrad said that helium is excited to "move from rebuilding to imagining the adjacent procreation of experiences."
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