Tough week for selecting which executive move to highlight, but I went with John Schappert, the new COO over at EA. John founded Tiburon Entertainment in 1994 at age 20 and in 1998 Tiburon was acquired by EA. Tiburon is the studio behind EA's Madden NFL, NCAA Football and Tiger Woods games. John left EA in 2007 to join Microsoft as Corporate VP Interactive Entertainment LIVE, Software and Services Business, responsible for the Xbox. John left Microsoft after 2 years to rejoin EA as COO. John has an impressive career for someone so young. I would not be surprised to see CEO of EA somewhere in his future.
Top 10 Executive moves:
Jim Comstock, VP Business Development at Akorri Networks, Inc.
ex-NetApp
Alton J. Dinsmore, VP Development at ANTs Software Inc.
ex-Oracle
Kurt Trampedach, VP Worldwide Sales at DiVitas Networks
ex-Sycamore, Alcatel-Lucent
John Schappert, COO at Electronic Arts Inc.
ex-Microsoft, EA
Gerri Elliott, VP Strategic Alliances at Juniper Networks, Inc.
ex-Microsoft, IBM
Jeff Jones, Director Product Marketing at Pixim, Inc.
ex-LSI
Peter Carson, SVP Worldwide Sales at Purewave Networks, Inc.
ex-Webex
Valerie Barish Williams, VP Human Resources at Siperian, Inc.
ex-BEA, Walt Disney
John Kealey, CEO at Vivísimo, Inc.
ex-iDirect, TenFold
Greg Winner, CEO at ZeroG Wireless, Inc.
ex-u-Nav, Atheros
Since our last post, there have been 53 executive moves at the companies we track, 31 Executives where added at 21 companies and 22 Executives where removed from 20 companies. For the full version of our weekly executive moves archive, please visit www.technames.com or call (925)831-2900.
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