社交网络游戏应用开发商和提供商Playdom在facebook和myspace平台上具有极高的知名度，该公司开发的游戏应用在myspace和facebook的总活跃用户数分别排名第一和第七。

约翰-普利森兹（John Pleasants），playdom公司首席执行官。

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在执掌playdom公司以前，约翰-普利森兹是美国电子艺界（Electronic Arts）公司的首席运营官兼发行总裁，在更早的时侯，约翰-普利森兹还是世界领先的票务公司特码捷的首席执行官。

约翰-普利森兹拥有耶鲁大学的文学学士学位和哈佛大学的工商管理学硕士。

Before taking the helm at Playdom, John served as President of Publishing and Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts (EA), where he oversaw global operations for the four billion dollar gaming company and led its consumer-facing businesses, including EA Mobile, Pogo, EA.com, global online gaming and Rupture. In addition, John drove a push to move EA from a software to a services model, and spearheaded the company’s expansion into social gaming. Prior to joining EA, John served as President and CEO of Revolution Heath and CEO of Ticketmaster, the world’s leading live event ticketing company. During his tenure at Ticketmaster/InteractiveCorp (IAC), John also oversaw several leading online entities such as Evite.com, Match.com, CitySearch.com and ReserveAmerica.com. John is a Director of the Board for The Artists Den, a music production and promotion company, and previously held Board of Director positions with Expedia.com, Active.com, Fastclick, Going.com and Extend Health. John earned a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard University. John’s favorite Playdom game is Wild Ones because global, synchronous, social, multi-animal animated annihilation can’t be beat.

保罗-拉封丹（Paul LaFontaine），playdom公司高级副总裁。

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保罗在playdom公司主要执掌公司的国际化扩张和商业运作。在这之前，保罗主要负责esolar公司的国际市场拓展和无线技术公司antrion的首席执行官。

保罗-拉封丹拥有美国西点军校的工程学学士学位。

Paul is charged with driving Playdom’s growth through international expansion and business diversification, a role that’s perfect for him given his twenty-plus years of experience making big things happen. Most recently, Paul led international market development at eSolar, an innovative utility-scale energy company. Before taking on the world’s energy challenge, Paul drove strategic growth for Ticketmaster from the UK and Los Angeles, and served as CEO of a wireless technology startup called Antiron. Paul has a BS in engineering from West Point and may or may not have worked in military intelligence from 1986 to 1991. Perhaps that’s why he’s affectionately called “The Cleaner” at Playdom—or his fastidiously tended plots in Lil Farm Life may inspire the name.

里克-汤普森（Rick Thompson），playdom公司主席和联合创始人。

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里克-汤普森，在创办playdom公司以前，他还是两个成功的互联网科技公司Adify 和FlyCast的首席执行官（主席）兼联合创始人。

里克-汤普森拥有加州大学圣克鲁兹分校的心理学学士学位和沃顿商学院的工商管理学硕士学位。

Rick is a serial entrepreneur, in a good way. Prior to founding Playdom, Rick co-founded and served as CEO and/or chairman of two successful Internet technology companies, Adify and FlyCast Communications. Rick was also on the founding team of Octel Communications, a leading manufacturer of voice information processing systems. As the oldest (and, um, wisest) member of Playdom’s founding team, Rick helps shape business strategy and reminds us to always think big. Rick holds a BS in psychology from UCSC and an MBA from the Wharton School.

克里斯-王（Chris Wang），playdom公司联合创始人

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克里斯-王在创办playdom公司以前，在google公司出任过两年的计算机工程师。

克里斯-王拥有卡内基-梅隆大学的计算机科学博士学位，加州大学伯克利分校的计算机科学学士学位。

Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon — completed in a record-breaking two years and ten months — and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack for programming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.

Ling Xiao，playdom公司技术副总裁兼联合创始人

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Ling Xiao，创办playdom公司的时候还是斯坦福大学计算机科学博士学位的候选人，在创办playdom公司以前，Ling Xiao曾在google公司和斯坦福大学做过研究。

Ling Xiao拥有斯坦福大学的计算机科学硕士学位和加州大学巴克利分校的电气工程学士学位。

Ling founded Playdom as a Stanford PhD candidate in computer science. Before Playdom, Ling puzzled over data anomalies at Google and researched the scalable visual analysis of large datasets at Stanford. Ling has an MS in computer science from Stanford and a BS in electrical engineering from Berkeley—both accomplishments squeezed in between marathon sessions of Counter-Strike. A literal student of the world, Ling lived in Beijing, Shanghai, Toronto and Vienna before moving to the Bay Area to “study” his two favorite things: CS and gaming.

Dan Yue, 首席产品设计师兼联合创始人

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dan yue，playdom创建初期公司的首席执行，现在主要负责产品的设计。

在入职playdom以前，dan是Adify的首位雇员，他还有过数次失败的创业经历。

dan拥有宾夕法尼亚州斯沃斯摩尔学院的物理学学位。

The founding CEO of Playdom, Dan Yue now serves as the company’s Chief Product Officer. In the same ilk as many of the Valley’s leading entrepreneurs, Dan is an interesting character. Prior to Playdom, Dan was employee #1 at Adify, an ad network platform acquired by Cox Enterprises in 2008; founded several wildly unsuccessful technology start-ups; and served as technical consultant to Wynn Design and Development. With a degree in physics from Swarthmore College, Dan uses data-driven insights to understand what players want and deliver it. A lifelong gamer, Dan has played thousands of hours of Final Fantasy 7 and Baldur’s Gate 2, and spent 34 long days as a semi-professional Blackjack player. Dan’s commitment to the player experience runs so deep that he wakes up several times a night to check the performance of our games.