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Key People

Management

Mark Pincus, Founder and CEO

Weighing in at 150 lbs, is Mark Pincus, frenetic visionary of Zynga. His DNA is one strand entrepreneur and one strand competitive gamer. Mark founded Tribe.net (www.tribe.net), one of the first social networks in 2003. Prior to Tribe, he was the founder and CEO of SupportSoft (Nasdaq: SPRT), the world's leading provider of support automation software. Prior to SupportSoft, Mark co-founded Freeloader, the first consumer push information service.

Scott Dale, VP of Engineering

Scott is the prettiest member of the Engineering team, yet he still has fewer Facebook friends than patents (6). Scott co-founded Houseglue in 2006. Prior to Houseglue, Scott co-founded SupportSoft with Mark and Cadir Lee (Nasdaq: SPRT) and spent eight years serving as both vice president of engineering and chief technology officer. Scott has also worked for Hewlett-Packard and Apple Computer. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Robert Goldberg, SVP of Business Operations

Robert Goldberg is Zynga’s senior VP of Business Operations, which includes revenue management, sales, marketing, business and corporate development, partner management and studio services. He brings over 25 years of senior management experience at industry leading media, e-commerce, enterprise software companies and venture capital firms, including Idealab and NBCi.

Board of Directors

Mark Pincus

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Rich Levandov

Avalon Ventures is a San Diego-based venture capital fund focusing on seed and early stage companies in the wireless technology and life science industries. Rich and Mark first met in 1995, when Mark tried unsucessfully to recruit Rich from AOL to FreeLoader (could you blame Rich for staying?).

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