What Happened?
Mountain View, CA-based Playdom appointed David Sobeski as Chief Technology Officer.
About the Company
Playdom, now a division of Disney, is a prominent online games provider popular on Facebook and on MySpace, it is currently the largest social game developer on MySpace and one of the larger ones on Facebook. The company was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area by University of California, Berkeley graduates Ling Xiao and Chris Wang and Swarthmore College graduate Dan Yue. In 2009, together with games providers Zynga and Playfish, Playdom contributed to a market worth $300 million in online sales of virtual goods through social networking sites.
About the Person
David Sobeski was previously the Senior Vice President at Yahoo! delivering Yahoo!'s Open Strategy and Data platform as well as driving products and innovation for the CEO.
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