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Zynga hires former EA executive as its chief financial officer

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Social mobile game publisher Zynga is announcing today it has hired games industry vet Gerard Griffin as chief financial officer.

Griffin spent the past 10 years at Electronic Arts, where he served as the No. 2 finance executive, working for EA CFO Blake Jorgensen. Earlier this week, Zynga disclosed that it had hired Doug Scott, another former EA marketer, as the chief marketing officer of Zynga.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.