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Three Top Execs Leaving As Zynga Shuffles Ranks

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Three C-level executives at Zynga, COO David Ko, CTO Cadir Lee and chief people officer Colleen McCreary, are leaving the company, as part of a corporate restructuring.

Don Mattrick (CEO, Zynga): We are now calibrating against the market opportunity and developing detailed plans to achieve topline growth and improve profitability in the future. I have asked the leaders to sharpen their focus and properly densify talent to resource teams.

Newly appointed CEO Don Mattrick is forming an executive team with the heads of the company’s studios, functional area heads, and tech, live ops, and publishing chiefs. The team will report directly to him.

Zynga studios leaders include Steve Chiang EVP Games, Villes and International, Barry Cottle, EVP Games, Social Casino, Travis Boatman, SVP Games, With Friends and Network, Tim LeTourneau, SVP Games, FarmVille, Steve Parkis, SVP Games, Midcore, Mark Skaggs, SVP Games, and Jon Tien, SVP Games, Casual.

Tech, live ops and publishing includes Nick Tornow, CTO, VP, Dorion Carroll, CIO, VP, and Adam Sussman, SVP Game Publishing (which includes distribution, direct advertising sales and ops).

Zynga functional area heads include Reggie Davis, general counsel, EVP Legal, Corporate and Business Affairs (which includes Corporate and Business Development and Communications), Mark Vranesh, CFO, EVP, and Meg Makalou, VP Human Resources.

[Image courtesy: Zynga]

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