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Zynga's brain drain continues with loss of biz dev VP - report
Zynga's brain drain continues with loss of biz dev VP - report
 

November 20, 2012   |   By Mike Rose

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More: Social/Online, Smartphone/Tablet, Business/Marketing





Newsbrief: It seems that there's a new Zynga resignation to report every single week at the moment. This particular week's departure from the social games giant is Jonathan Flesher, VP of business development, according to AllthingsD.

Flesher was in charge of securing a number of celebrity deals for the company, including in-game integrations of Lady Gaga and Snoop Dogg content. He also worked on numerous partnerships, including those with Yahoo, Google+ and MSN. Gamasutra has contacted Zynga to confirm.

Just last week, Zynga lost its CFO David Wehner. Before that, the company saw a dozen other executives leave within the space of two months, including COO John Schappert and general manager Alan Patmore.
 
 
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Maria Jayne
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The good news is that the tea lady keeps getting a pay rise.

Frank Cifaldi
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Do you mean the Chief Tea Officer, the Vice President of Tea, or the head of its off-site tea studio?

Alan Rimkeit
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Crash burn cinders. Such is the life cycle of Zynga.

Joe Wreschnig
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Pretty sure the dude whose job could be summed up as "know and get to know rich and famous people" is not going to be one of the (ex-)employees crashing or burning here.

Alan Rimkeit
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Well yeah, the employee's are all jumping ship before the ultimate crash and burn.

Gregory Booth
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Hopefully they will finish crashing and burning soon so we can
start work on our newest game "Villeville" without the threat of trademark litigation.


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