News and technology information Beijing time November 21, according to foreign media reports, social game developers Zynga announced the promotion of Tim Lieturniu (Tim Letourneau) as Chief Innovation Officer (CCO), replacing the August left the company to start their own gaming company Mack Fodou (Mike Verdu).
Previously, Lietur was the vice president of Zynga's game operations, and was responsible for the company's most successful game FarmVille2 in the past few months. In his new position, he will give up the day-to-day operation of the FarmVille2 game and spend more time on the design of the whole game business. He will report to Steve Chiang, president of the gaming department, while Mao Lin Fan (Maureen Fan) is the new general manager for FarmVille2 Games, Steve Jiang.
Zynga confirmed that two appointments took place at the company's quarterly plenary meeting earlier this month. The company is actually playing a seat game, with one department of the company filling vacancies in another. At that plenary meeting, for example, 680 people were promoted to assume greater responsibility, while the company's total staff count was only 3000. In addition, David (David Ko) and Barry Cauter (Barry Cottle) were recently promoted to chief operating officer and Chief Battalion, who replaced the John Chapotte (John schappert) and Jeff Kap (Jeff Karp) who resigned from the downgrade.
It is understood that Lietur has been working in EA since 1990 and joined Zynga 2 years ago. During his 20 years in EA, he spent most of his time developing popular Sim games that were enduring.