Soundcloud's VP of business development Dave Haynes is leaving the digital music company for "new challenges".

Haynes (pictured), who first joined the platform in 2008, broke the news on his own blog earlier today.

He explained: "SoundCloud is a global company and thinking and acting globally has been one of the factors to our success. But there's an unavoidable overhead to managing a team in three different timezones and for the last three years I've been away from home ...