Categories: Tech & Society

OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter Quits Zynga After a One Year Stint

Dan Porter, the former CEO of New York-based gaming company OMGPOP which was purchased by Zynga in March of last year, has left Zynga after completing a year at the company.

Zynga purchased OMGPOP after Draw Something app became hugely popular. Porter joined Zynga and was working on the sequel to Draw Something. Zynga has confirmed that the decision was mutual and has nothing to do with any special clause in Porter’s contract after the acquisition.

“Developing and launching games is a team effort, and we’re proud of the great work the Zynga New York team has done with Draw Something 2,” Zynga COO David Ko said. “We thank Dan Porter for his efforts in making the Draw Something franchise a success and wish him well in his future endeavors.”

Till today, Dan Porter was VP of General Management at Zynga’s New York office. He’ll be replaced by VP of Mobile Sean Uberoi Kelly. This past December, CEO Mark Pincus was named the fourth worst CEO in part because of “a big exodus of top executive talent,” as well as the $95.5 million write-down on its acquisition of OMGPOP.

Zynga’s bad phase seems to be continuing forever.

Team TechPanda

Recent Posts

Delhi Public School students earn MIT-Certified AI credentials, record 50% jump in proficiency

High school students at Delhi Public School (DPS) earned MIT-certified AI credentials and improved their…

3 days ago

Summit AI’s Rural Cyber Blindside: Voice-Cloned Scams Exploding in India’s Digital Heartland

The recent India–AI Impact Summit 2026 demonstrated a defining global inflection point — the transition…

6 days ago

Account Aggregator is emerging as the foundation of India’s open finance architecture

By enabling secure, consent-based financial data sharing, the Account Aggregator framework is laying the groundwork…

6 days ago

ImmuneBridge wants to make cell therapy work for everyone – starting with the factory floor  

There’s a quiet crisis in one of medicine’s most exciting fields. Cell therapy – the…

6 days ago

How AI is Changing Business: Hybrid AI is Coming

Lenovo and NVIDIA are pushing AI into its next phase, scaling real-time, production-ready systems that…

2 weeks ago