Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq:ZNGA), a leading provider of social game
services, today announced that two new directors are joining its
Board, Carol G. Mills and Janice M. Roberts.
"I'm proud to welcome Carol and Janice to Zynga’s Board of
Directors,” said Frank Gibeau, CEO of Zynga. “Janice's expertise
with global mobile product and technology companies, and Carol’s
three decades of experience developing world-class enterprise
services and teams, will be invaluable as we focus on unlocking
long-term growth in our business and increasing shareholder
value.”
Mills and Roberts join Zynga's board members: Louis J. Lavigne,
Jr., Dr. Regina E. Dugan, Ellen F. Siminoff, Sunil Paul, William
"Bing" Gordon, John Doerr, Mark Pincus and Frank Gibeau.
Mills brings more than three decades of experience building
global engineering teams to Zynga's Board. She currently serves as
Chairman of the Board of Directors for Xactly Corporation, a
software as a service company devoted to incentive compensation,
and serves on the Board of Directors for RELX Group.
Most recently, Mills served as the Interim CEO of Blue Coat
Systems, Inc., in late 2011. Before that, she spent nearly two
years at Juniper Network, Inc., where she served as Executive Vice
President and General Manager of its Infrastructure Products Group,
overseeing business strategy and product development. Prior to
joining Juniper Networks, Mills was a principal consultant for
Barrymore and Baldwin, a strategy consulting firm. Mills also spent
more than four years as the CEO of Acta Technology, Inc., an
enterprise software company that was acquired by Business Objects
in July 2002. Additionally, Mills spent more than 17 years at
Hewlett-Packard Company where she held a number of executive roles
including Vice President and Worldwide General Manager of its UNIX
Server Business Unit.
Previously, Mills was a Board Member for several companies
including, Adobe Systems, Inc.; Alaska Communications Systems
Group, Inc.; Blue Coat Systems, Inc.; Ingram Micro; Tekelec, Inc.;
and WhiteHat Security, Inc.
Roberts brings more than three decades of venture capital and
global technology experience to Zynga's Board. She has served on
numerous private, public and non-profit boards, and is currently a
Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures LLC. Roberts serves on the
Board of Directors for Zebra Technologies Corp. and RealNetworks,
Inc., and most recently served on the board of ARM Holdings plc,
owned by SoftBank Group, the microprocessor technology company for
smartphones, computing and connectivity.
Prior to joining Benhamou Global Ventures, Roberts served as a
Managing Director at Mayfield Fund for 13 years. At Mayfield, she
invested in communications and networking, wireless, mobile and
consumer technology companies. Preceding her career in venture
capital, Roberts held a number of executive roles in Europe and the
U.S. She spent 9 years in a number of senior executive roles at
networking company, 3Com Corp. (Hewlett-Packard Company), including
Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Business Development,
Acting President of the Palm Computing Division and President of
3Com Ventures. Before 3Com, Roberts held various positions in the
communications and networking industry, including Managing Director
of BICC Data Networks, which was acquired by 3Com in 1992.
About Zynga Inc. Since its founding in 2007,
Zynga's mission has been to connect the world through games.
To-date, more than 1 billion people have played Zynga's games
across Web and mobile, including FarmVille, Zynga Poker, Words With
Friends, Hit it Rich! Slots and CSR Racing. Zynga's games are
available on a number of global platforms including Apple iOS,
Google Android, Facebook and Zynga.com. The company is
headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., and has additional offices
in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland and India. Learn more about
Zynga at http://blog.zynga.com or follow us on Twitter and
Facebook.
Contact Kelly Pakulakpakula@zynga.com (415)
245-4462
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things, the appointment of our new directors and their success,
that the appointment of our new directors will be invaluable as we
focus on unlocking long-term growth in our business and increasing
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