Playdom Hires John Pleasants as New CEO, Expands with New Hires

With more than 13 million total users, Mobsters is the #1 MySpace game. Since the game’s developer, Playdom, revealed itself to the world in March, the company has been growing. During April and May, Playdom hired 23 people. Today, it announced the hiring of a new CEO: EA COO John Pleasants. Co-founder and current CEO Dan Yue will move into a product strategy role.

While at EA, Pleasants was responsible for businesses including the casual portal Pogo as well as the company’s mobile and social networking efforts.

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