StockTwits names ex-MarketWatch GM as its CEO

Financial media company StockTwits Inc. has named Ian Rosen, the former general manager of MarketWatch.com, as its chief executive officer.

Current CEO Howard Lindzon, who founded the company in 2008, will assume the role of executive chairman, and will continue to serve as chairman of StockTwits’ board.

StockTwits is known for creating the $ tag on Twitter to help organize information about stocks and markets. Its stream is distributed on sites such as Yahoo! Finance, CNNMoney, Reuters, TheStreet.com, Bing.com and The Globe and Mail.

Rosen led MarketWatch Inc., from October 2012 to January 2015. He has also been CEO of Even Financial, a fast-growing alternative lending supply platform. Rosen was also in charge of Dow Jones & Co.’s investment banking business from 2008 to 2012.

His job at StockTwits is to grow its content, events, and data businesses, both deepening and widening its audience base.

“As first steps, we plan on using the vast amount of insight and intelligence created daily within the stream itself, which can be curated, reshaped, and presented in more consumable ways, for the parts of our community that don’t live and die by the stream,” said Rosen in an email to Talking Biz News.

“We will also create and source from our users and others original content that has direct or adjacent relevance to StockTwits’ core mission of connecting and empowering the financial community,” he added.