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"We haven't seen many executives leaving Facebook in recent months\u2014in fact, a good portion of those execs that have been fleeing companies like Yahoo and Google have been moving over to the Facebook camp.  That's not the case with Owen Van Natta, who joined Facebook in 2005 as the company's COO, and was re-assigned to become the Chief Revenue Officer and VP Operations last year.  \nAccording to Kara Swisher's \"All Things Digital,\" Van Natta is leaving the still-young company to do his own thing.  He'd already gotten a taste of entrepreneurial glory when he founded and became vice president of Amazon's A9.com search utility, and joined Facebook with a good deal of experience thanks to his stint as the vice president of worldwide business and corporate development at Amazon.  Now that Van Natta has helped position Facebook quite nicely (Van Natta was also integral to the Microsoft-Facebook deal), he's got no problems moving on.  \nAnd moving on should be easy enough, as Van Natta has a hefty amount of Facebook stock.  Of course, Facebook's sore spot has always been revenue, and some question the network's ability to turn a profit big enough to warrant the $15 billion valuation.  So Facebook will have to continue working on that without the direct help of Van Natta, who is moving on to become his own CEO at a to-be-determined company."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://mashable.com/2008/02/19/owen-van-natta-leaves-facebook/>