This week, I am highlighting Vishal Makhijani, the new SVP Casual and Mobility at Zynga. Zynga has been picking up a lot of great executives lately and I have been watching them closely. Zynga is a social gaming company and if you have an account on Facebook, you may have been invited to "Mafia Wars" which is one of their games. Vishal had a brief stint as CEO of a Russian search company, but, prior to that, he worked for Yahoo for several years, most recently as SVP Search. Definitely a score for Zynga.
Top 10 Executive moves:
Tom Dibble, VP Business Development at Aria Systems
ex-Oracle, BEA
Bill Macy, VP Sales at Aria Systems
ex-Business Objects
Bob Logan, VP North American Sales at Camilion Solutions, Inc.
ex-Open Text
John O'Leary, VP Sales at Code Green Networks
ex-Tablus
Derek Peachey, SVP Sales & Corporate Development at July Systems, Inc.
ex-Nokia
Dave Benson, SVP & CIO at Progress Software Corporation
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Eddie Ruvinsky, VP Engineering at Right90, Inc.
ex-Akamai, Fatbrain
Craig Miller, VP Marketing & Business Development at SEQUANS Communications
ex-Intel, NextWave
Dave Olander, SVP Engineering at Xceedium, Inc.
ex-netForensics, Improv
Vishal Makhijani, SVP Casual and Mobility Divisions at Zynga, Inc.
ex-Yahoo, Yandex
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