Zynga CFO David Wehner joins Facebook

November 14, 2012 08:11 am | Updated 10:18 am IST - NEW YORK

San Francisco-based Zynga said that David Wehner will take a senior finance position at Facebook.

San Francisco-based Zynga said that David Wehner will take a senior finance position at Facebook.

Zynga’s finance chief is leaving the troubled online game company to join Facebook.

San Francisco-based Zynga Inc. said on Tuesday that David Wehner will take a “senior finance position” at the social networking company. His exact title will be vice-president of corporate finance and business planning, Facebook said.

Chief accounting officer, Mark Vranesh, is replacing Wehner as chief financial officer, returning to the post he held from 2008 to 2010, while Zynga was still a private company.

Zynga also reshuffled its executive ranks, a move CEO Mark Pincus said puts the company in a position for “long-term growth.”

David Ko, who was previously chief mobile officer, is now chief operations officer. Barry Cottle, who came to Zynga from Electronic Arts Inc., is now chief revenue officer. He was previously executive vice-president of business and corporate development.

The appointments seek to fill some of the holes left by executives who’ve left Zynga in recent months. John Schappert, Zynga’s chief operating officer, left in August after less than a year-and-a-half on the job. Schappert’s exit was followed by that of Mike Verdu, the company’s chief creative officer. And in September Jeff Karp, the chief marketing and chief revenue officer, left the company.

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