Brandon Barber

Past

• VP of Marketing at Zynga, Inc
• Sr. Director, Global Online Marketing at Electronic Arts
• Director, Entertainment Development & Programming at Electronic Arts

• Director of Product Management at Napster
• Product Manager, Digital Music at Rollingstone.com
• Content Editor at JamTV

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Education

• Marquette University

Connections

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Industry

Computer Games

Brandon Barber’s Experience

• VP of Marketing

  Zynga, Inc

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  January 2009 — August 2009 (8 months)

  Created marketing function at Zynga, the largest developer of social games, with broad-reaching responsibilities including brand development, product marketing, PR/Marcom, product strategy, community management and consumer research.

• Sr. Director, Global Online Marketing

  Electronic Arts

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

  May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)

  Responsible for the concept, design, deployment and profitability of strategically critical consumer interfaces that enable EA’s evolution to a web services based business model.

• Director, Entertainment Development & Programming

  Electronic Arts

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

  February 2003 — May 2008 (5 years 4 months)

  Established and grew entertainment and music marketing functions and created strategic road map for marketing, content creation and distribution partnerships between EA and key partners in the music, television, video-on-demand, mobile, online and film industries.

• Director of Product Management

  Napster

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

  December 1999 — April 2002 (2 years 5 months)

  Designed and implemented Napster’s initial product strategy which included all aspects of Napster’s website, Macintosh client application, Windows client application, community programs, artist programs and customer service efforts.

• Product Manager, Digital Music

  Rollingstone.com

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

  August 1997 — October 1999 (2 years 3 months)

  Designed and managed the creation of the engine and interface that allowed Tunes.com, Rollingstone.com, TheSource.com and DownbeatJazz.com to collect and distribute user-submitted digital content.

• Content Editor

  JamTV

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

  February 1997 — August 1997 (7 months)

  Created original editorial content including: a biweekly column, artist interviews, feature pieces and live show reviews.

Brandon Barber’s Education

• Marquette University

  1990 — 1994