Spotify has named Jorge Espinel as head of global business development, replacing Gerrit Meier who resigned last October.

Espinel is tasked with forging strategic partnerships – such as the bundling deal announced last month with Vodafone - in order to grow the streaming service’s subscriber count, reports Billboard.

The exec has spent the last four years working on News Corp.'s digital strategy - before that he was a partner at digital media investment firm Fuse Capital, formerly Velocity ...