Forgive the snarky headline, but history has shown that navigating a once-hot consumer Web company through the trough of the hype cycle is one of the hardest jobs in Silicon Valley. And very few come out with a billion winner on the other side. (Cough, cough, MySpace, Digg, Six Apart...) But if anyone is going to pull a turn-around off at RockYou, it's Lisa Marino. Marino joined RockYou in better days, when her husband Ro Choy was the company's head of business development. Choy left to start his own thing, but Marino stayed on, continually taking on more and more sales and executive responsibility as the company began to crumble. She took over as chief operating officer nine months ago, managing layoffs (including possibly�RockYou's founder Lance Tokuda) while she successfully recruited new gaming talent starting with senior VP of games Jonathan Knight. Likewise, she spent nine months cutting expenses dramatically, while managing to grow the top line more than 40% in the fourth quarter. Typically, those two don't go hand-in-hand.
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