Motricity Announces Exec Team; Loses COO Steve Elfman To Sprint

After announcing that it will move its headquarters to Bellevue to be closer to key personnel, Motricity said today that president and COO Steve Elfman is leaving the company to work at beleaguered Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel as the president of network operations and wholesale business.

It will be interesting to see if Elfman’s departure is a strain on Motricity. Following the acquisition of InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) Mobile, the company re-organized the business, announcing that it will lay off 250 employees from its North Carolina headquarters and move to Bellevue, Wash., to join InfoSpace’s offices. Not including Motricity’s CEO and chairman Ryan Wuerch, most of the remaining executives were from InfoSpace, and previously reported to Elfman. In a release, Wuerch said: “We certainly don

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