Mark Pincus
Founder,
Chief Executive Officer &
Chief Product Officer

Mark is the founder, CEO and chief product officer of Zynga. He founded the company in 2007 with a mission of connecting the world through games, and in founding zynga.org, he also believes that games can do good.

On his way to creating Zynga, Mark started three companies. In 2003, he launched Tribe.net, one of the first social networks. Before that, he founded Support.com, a pioneer in automating tech support, and took it public. In 1995, he launched FreeLoader, the first web-based consumer push company. Mark started his career in new media and venture capital before he discovered his calling as a consumer technology entrepreneur. Mark also made founding investments in Napster, Brightmail, Twitter and Facebook.

Mark graduated summa cum laude from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an angel investor in multiple Silicon Valley startups and regularly gives lectures to aspiring entrepreneurs.

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March 16, 2010

@Scale with Steve

I am excited that Steven Chiang, a veteran of the video game industry who is strongly regarded for building high-quality games and scaling development teams and operations worldwide, has joined zynga.

Steve brings a unique combination of start-up entrepreneurship with @scale game management to his role as president of our game studios.

Steve helped invent the console gaming business and his deep expertise will allow us to double down and deliver on the promise of social gaming.

A little about Steve.

Steve has 17 years of game experience, of which he spent the last 15 at Electronic Arts. At EA, he was most recently the senior vice president and group general manager for EA SPORTS where he oversaw the Madden NFL series, one of the all-time bestselling video game franchises in North America.

Under his tenure, EA SPORTS developed many of its most popular and highest rated sports titles including NCAA Football, FIFA Soccer, NHL and NBA Live, titles millions of people play daily.  In the online space, Steve worked with the teams to re-launch EASPORTS.com  and create Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Online.

Steve was a co-founder of Tiburon Entertainment which was acquired by EA in 1998. Steve tells us his family is addicted to FarmVille so he has extra pressure to deliver great new gaming experiences. When will we see farmer's markets steve?

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