More senior executives leave MTV: senior VP of music and VP of music programming join exodus from television company.(Television)

Harriett Brand has committed herself to a future in music following her exit after 13 years from MTV.

Brand, who left her post last week as MTV Networks International's senior vice president of music, is part of an exodus of senior executives from the music broadcaster, with its London-based vice president of music programming Hans Hagman also leaving. Their announced departures last week follow the exit at the end of last month of the company's London-based president and editor-in-chief Brent Hansen after more than 18 years with MTV.

The trio's departures come amid an ongoing consultation process with staff about restructuring, which is expected to be completed in the next few weeks and likely to result in redundancies in London and elsewhere. However, MTV says Brand's departure is unconnected to this, as it previously stated with Hansen, although it confirms Hagman is parting at the end of the month as a result of the restructuring programme.

Brand herself is also quick to dismiss any suggestions that her departure is linked to that of Hansen, describing it as "coincidental: She instead says she felt it was now the right moment to move on. "There's a certain point where you know it's time," she says. "You see a window of opportunity and another door opening for you and you know you've done what you can do in your present position."

Brand says she is still technically employed with MTV, so cannot yet discuss her next career move, but reveals it will definitely involve music. "My abiding interest has been and remains music, she says.

Brand, whose arrival at MTV Europe in 1993 followed a series of roles within EMI in London, Hamburg and Los Angeles, says she has had "the best time imaginable" at MTV.

"It's given me wonderful experiences," she says. "It's given me the opportunities to meet people I would never have met in life. I've had insane opportunities because of MTV; it's given me some of the craziest moments in the world. I've met everybody from Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela to the Dalai Lamar. I've got to meet every artist I've wanted to ...