The names of Sonos Tom Conrad, CEO

The company announced on Wednesday that Sonos officially appointed Tom Conrad as CEO. Conrad He assumed the position of temporary CEO In January after the company’s catastrophic application was launched in May 2024, which led Previous resignation CEO Patrick Spence.

Conrad has worked on Sonos’s Board of Directors since 2017 and has also been the chief product employee in the live broadcast service. Now, Conrad says he is ready to start “imagine the next generation of experiments” in Sonos that he is Discuss our interview Earlier this year.

Fix the Sonos Grand application Client By offering many errors and withdrawing the features available in advance. The company has been on the way of recovery since then, and it has been released Several updates In an attempt to back down from some changes and Restore customer confidence.

In a letter to the employees, Conrad writes:

Today it is not related to dropping the temporary word from my title. Today is the day when we say the page to a completely new chapter, and today it is the day when we start our invention, and today it is the day when we return to the absolute focus on excellence and the first customer principles that the values of our company were 20 years ago.

While under the leadership of Conrad, Sonos delivered about 200 employees As part of plans to reorganize the company to “flattering, smaller and more focused,” he ended it Cooperation with IKEA on Symfonisk Speaker. In March, the company launched User complaints initiative About the application and also issued The main software updates for ACE Wireless Headphones and bow sound.