Two Executive Hires at Zynga

July 16th, 2008

By - Justin Smith -

Large social game Zynga is announcing this morning that two new executives are joining the company.

Scott Derringer is joining Zynga as vice president of product management from Yahoo! Inc., where he served as senior director of product management. Derringer will be responsible for developing online games and will report to CEO Mark Pincus. At Yahoo!, he played a key role in developing the company’s community strategy and overhauling Yahoo! Groups

Hugh de Loayza is joining as vice president of business development and will be responsible for developer relations, mergers and acquisitions and licensing opportunities. He will report to Andrew Trader, executive vice president of sales and business development. De Loayza is a games industry veteran having served as senior director of business development for Oberon Media building partnerships with EA/POGO, United Online, Verizon, ATT, Hewlett Packard and Hasbro.

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2 Responses to “Two Executive Hires at Zynga”

Andy Gough Says:
December 20th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Zynga have the WORST customer service I have ever encountered. They have dropped the ball on their BEST app ever, My Heroes Ability, and will not reply to emails asking for the app to be maintained and updated. Today the app is unplayable and I will not be using any Zynga products in the future.
MICHELLE Says:
January 6th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
There is abosulutely no moderators or supervision on these game applications. We have countless numbers of teenagers playing. There is serious real life slander, cyberbullying, racial comments and cheating.