Zynga Loses Marketing, Revenue Chief
Executive exodus continues for social gaming company
The hits keep coming for Zynga. Problem is, hits for the social gaming company used to mean another uber-popular game—likely ending in -ville.
But lately those hits are body blows to the business’s bottom line: a 44 percent stock plummet following an especially rough third-quarter earnings report, the resignation of COO John Schappert, the loss of CityVille product head Alan Patmore to a competitor and the departure of chief creative officer Mike Verdu who plans to start his own gaming company (Zynga’s an investor, per All Things D).
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