San Francisco, Ca., USA - November 14, 2012, San Francisco, Ca., USA - Zynga Inc., a provider of social game services, announced a number of changes to the company's executive team.
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Mark Vranesh, chief accounting officer, has been appointed chief financial officer.
Mr. Vranesh previously served as the CFO of Zynga from May 2008 until August 2010.
Since August 2010, he has served as the company's chief accounting officer.
Before joining Zynga, Mr. Vranesh served as the vice president of finance and administration and corporate controller of Fortinet, Inc., a computer and network security company.
Prior to that position, he held finance roles of increasing responsibility, including vice president of finance, at Support.com, Inc., an online technology support company.
Mr. Vranesh succeeded David Wehner, who is leaving the company to pursue a senior finance position at Facebook, Inc.
The company also announced that David Ko, previously chief mobile officer, has been appointed chief operations officer; Barry Cottle, previously executive vice president, business and corporate development, has been appointed chief revenue officer; and Steven Chiang, previously executive vice president of games, has been appointed president of games.
Since joining the company in 2010, Mr. Ko scaled Zynga's mobile organization, grew the company's portfolio by 25 new games and helped unite game development teams on cross platform efforts.
Prior to joining Zynga, Mr. Ko was senior vice president of Yahoo!'s audience, mobile and local businesses and also served as vice president for Yahoo!'s mobile business in Asia Pacific.
Before joining Zynga, Mr. Cottle was executive vice president of EA Interactive where he was responsible for digital gaming properties including mobile, social and casual online games.
Previously, he held executive roles at The Walt Disney Company, Quickoffice Inc. and Palm Computing Inc.
Mr. Chiang has nearly 20 years of gaming experience and at Zynga has overseen the building and scaling of teams around game development and studio operations.
Before joining Zynga, he was senior vice president and group general manager for EA Sports at Electronic Arts. ■