Tom Munro, pictured at Photobucket’s Denver headquarters in Spring 2015, stepped down as CEO in December 2015. (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post)
Denver-based , the online photo-sharing and storage site, has lost its CEO and a handful of top executives in the past month, the company confirmed Friday.
Tom Munro, who after his firm the prior year, left in December, said Todd Bars, Photobucket’s Director of Marketing and Ecommerce.
Munro was joined later that month by the departure of , the company’s chief product officer, and , its chief technology officer. Photobucket’s marketing manager Derek Cann has also left the company.
“Tom made a decision to leave Photobucket back in December,” Bars said. “Michael Clark and Kate had been with the company for quite some time. They decided to pursue other things.”
Photobucket, one of in the early 2000s, became one of the most popular photo sites online as consumers discovered it was a great place to stash and share digital photos. The company was later acquired by News Corp in 2007 before Ontela picked it up in 2010.
Last year, the company made several acquisitions of mobile-based companies, , which was created by Photobucket’s original founder Alex Welch.
Munro could not be reached for comment on Friday, but according to his LinkedIn profile, he joined Seattle-based in December. Glowforge was started by Dan Shapiro, who founded Onetela.
John Corpus, who joined Photobucket after it last April, is now CEO.
The company has hired Chris Peacock as its CTO. Peacock previously worked as vice president of architecture at T3Media, which changed its name to Wazee Digital.
“There are a lot of new things going on,” Bars said. “Last year, we had a number of new partnerships with Samsung and Verizon. But it’s not a change in direction. Most partnerships were put in place a while ago when Tom was here.”
In October, the company also raised $2.2 million from investors. Details were not available about the purpose of the Series F round.
The company has about 53 employees and remains headquartered in the Ballpark neighborhood in Denver.
