MySpace (NSDQ: NWS), which has overhauled its management team in recent months and is preparing for a major relaunch of its site, has hired Tom Cox as its SVP of business development. Cox was a VP of business development at AOL (NYSE: AOL) until last December. Since then, he had been working as a principal at Stratique Partners, a boutique consultancy he founded with AOL colleague Micah Green.

MySpace says Cox will be “responsible for crafting and implementing MySpace’s overall business strategy as well as identifying and negotiating critical partnerships that support key corporate objectives.” He’s filling a position that has been vacant since Ali Partovi left MySpace in April. Partovi, a co-founder of iLike, took the top business development job at MySpace when MySpace bought his company last summer.

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