Electronic Arts Moves EA Sports’ Moore Up to COO, Cottle to Oversee Mobile, Social Gaming
Electronic Arts shuffled its executives today with EA Sports’ head Peter Moore taking over as chief operating officer. He is filling the position that John Schappert left open when he left the company for rival Zynga.
Barry Cottle, who had been executive vice president of EA Interactive, becomes head of that division, which oversees all of the company’s mobile and social gaming initiatives. PopCap Games, which the company just agreed to acquire for up to $1.3 billion including earnouts, will also fall under its umbrella.
August 7th, 2011 at 8:59 am
[...] Electronic Arts Moves EA Sports’ Moore Up to COO, Cottle to Oversee Mobile, Social Gaming [...]
January 12th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
[...] Cottle follows a similar path taken by fellow EA alum John Schappert, who jumped ship for Zynga last April. We’ve seen several other ex-EA employees below the corporate level also migrate, suggesting a significant level of compatibility between the two corporate cultures. Though at EA since 2007, Cottle barely spent six months in the role role as EVP of EA Interactive – Social, Mobile and Online Gaming, which he took over when EA shuffled its executives in August 2011. [...]