-- Seatwave: The secondary tickets marketplace is adding Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) global business development unit chief financial officer Aksel van der Wal as its own first dedicated CFO. Founded by Ticketmaster alum Joe Cohen and Atlas Ventures in 2007, Seatwave is sitting on $36 million in funding to date and is unlikely to need more, but rather will now knuckle down and build out the business properly. Competing with direct rival Viagogo, it wants a bigger slice of the primary ticket market, too.

-- Jamster: News Corp/VeriSign (NSDQ: VRSN) mobile entertainment JV Jamster/Jamba has hired Endemol International’s digital media director William Linders as its content EVP, based at the Berlin HQ. Linders had spent seven years with the TV producer, working on interactive ideas around shows like Big Brother. At Jamster, he will lead global content strategy, including developing partnerships with record labels, studios, networks, video game companies and others.

-- Endemol: Former Fox Kids Europe chief Ynon Kreiz, meanwhile, will on June 1 become CEO of the new-look Endemol Group, following its takeover last year by John de Mol, Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. Variety: “Kreiz sees ample opportunities for Endemol to expand the scope of its new-media operations in ways that will ‘take the shows beyond the (TV) screen’.” He will be London-based.

-- Joost: The P2P TV service, which still relies on a dedicated desktop app has added former Dailymotion execs Danny Passman and John Schultz as global head of programming strategy and director of programming strategy respectively. Passman was senior creative director for content and programming and Schultz was creative director for the French site in the US, both in New York., where Joost has an office. Joost has also placed Owen O’Donnell as CFO - a position he held with Index Ventures portfolio stablemates King.com and Betfair plus Kyle Forster as product management VP and Dina Nathanson as HR director.