The founder of Zynga completely renounces any leadership of the company, and his successor forms a new team.
Last July, Mark Pincus He ceded the chair of Zynga CEO to Don Mattrick, who had resigned as head of Microsoft’s entertainment division a couple of days earlier. Pincus himself then took the position of director of the production control department in his company.
However, now Mark has decided to retire completely.
As it became known yesterday, “the ship sails better with one captain.” That’s how he explained his departure from all managerial positions at Zynga in an interview with Re\Code yesterday. Now he is “only” the chairman of the board of directors, who owns the majority of shares in the company he founded seven years ago.
Mark stated that he is not going to start a new company, but plans to invest and establish an incubator.
While some leave the company, others come.
The head of the gaming division of the company – Zynga Studios – was Alex Garden, who was previously responsible for Xbox Live at Microsoft, who managed to work at Nexon, and before that founded Relic Entertainment.
Alex GardenThe art director of the company is now Henry LaBounta, who during his life managed to work not only in Electronic Arts, DreamWorks and Microsoft Studios, but also became an Oscar nominee for tornado design for the movie “Tornado” (1997).
Henry LaBuntaJennifer Nuckles, who previously held a similar position at Plum District, an electronic commercial platform focused on moms, has recently been appointed Chief marketing Officer.
Jennifer KnucklesSources:
http://www.pocketgamer.biz, http://venturebeat.com, http://recode.netZynga is a pioneer company in the social gaming market.
It was founded in 2007. She earned her start-up capital at Texas Hold’em Poker (now Zynga Poker). In 2008, she raised an investment of $29 million, which allowed her to acquire MyMiniLife, which at that time had just completed the Farmville time manager. In 2011, Zynga successfully entered the IPO, raising more than $1 billion during the placement of shares. Then the company continued its policy of acquiring promising companies. This led to a severe drop in income. As a result, in the summer of 2013, the founder of the company, Mark Pincus, resigned as CEO, giving way to the former head of Microsoft’s entertainment division, Don Mattrick.