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Zynga’s No. 2 exec Clive Downie joins Unity Technologies as chief marketing officer

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Zynga chief operating officer Clive Downie has resigned from the social gaming company and is joining Unity Technologies as chief marketing officer, GamesBeat has learned.

Downie, the No. 2 exec at Zynga, formally resigned and is now joining Unity, whose design engine and tools are some of the most used in the game industry. This move comes 15 days the company announced that after Don Mattrick, the chief executive of Zynga for 20 months, left and was replaced by founder Mark Pincus. Here’s the filing.

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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.