Zynga departures finish new CEO's complete makeover of the management team

You have to hand it to Don Mattrick, the chief executive of Zynga. He’s thorough. Since he arrived in July, Mattrick has turned over the entire senior management team at Zynga.

Although he still works for founder Mark Pincus, Zynga’s chairman, Mattrick has carté blanche to do what it takes to make the social-gaming company successful. It’s encouraging to see that he has the authority and will to appoint whomever he sees fit to do the job. On the other hand, new departures indicate that things have not settled down at Zynga, which has seen its headcount shrink from more than 3,500 a couple of years ago to about 1,991 as of the end of the first quarter.