Ian Rogers, Chief Executive Officer of Topspin, is a music and technology industry veteran with roots in defining the way artists and consumers promote and experience digital media online. Rogers has been building digital media applications since 1992. He created one of the first music-related Web sites and built many of the original promotional sites for the music and movie industries.

Prior to joining Topspin, Rogers was Vice President of Video and Media Applications at Yahoo!, where he oversaw the strategy for products and services, including the Web-based Yahoo! Media Player and the Web services which powered Yahoo! Music Video applications on sites including Facebook and Bebo. While at Yahoo!, Rogers also served as Director, VP of Product Development, and General Manager for Yahoo! Music, overseeing the development of the world’s #1 Music Web site, Music.Yahoo.com as well as LAUNCHcast radio and the Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscription service.

Before joining Yahoo!, Rogers was founder, president and CTO of Mediacode, a media software developer which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2003. He was CTO at rVision, one of the first Web design firms until 1998, then was part of Nullsoft, an early leader in the digital music revolution and makers of Winamp, SHOUTcast, and Gnutella. Rogers was the President of New Media for the Beastie Boys’ record label and lifestyle brand Grand Royal, where he was responsible for the first same day digital/physical album release.