EA Loses Barry Cottle to Zynga, Promotes Playfish's Segerstrale
Barry Cottle, who oversees EA’s mobile and social games, has left the company to take a position at Zynga as executive vice president of business and corporate development.
It’s another key executive loss for EA, which has seen other high-ranking alums like John Schappert, leave for Zynga. We’ve seen several other ex-EA employees below the corporate level also migrate, suggesting that the corporate culture between the two rivals isn’t so different. Even though Cottle has served EA for more than four years, he barely spent six months in the role as EVP of EA Interactive – Social, Mobile and Online Gaming, which he took over when EA shuffled
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