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Zynga’s Latest Hire: Julie Shumaker as VP of North American Sales

in Commerce on April 4 at 9:58 am PT

Zynga has hired another executive to help run its fast-growing company. This time it’s Julie Shumaker, who will join as VP of North American Sales. Previously, Shumaker was at RockYou, where she was SVP and GM of the game company’s developer and advertising network media sales. Prior to that, she worked at 4Info as the SVP of Sales and Marketing. She will report to Zynga Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer Jeff Karp.

Hearst’s UGO Gets New Blood, Still Needs CEO

in Media on November 2, 2009 at 6:30 am PT

Hearst’s dude-centric UGO site, which has been without a permanent CEO since June, is still looking for a new boss. But in the meantime, it has some new blood: The company has brought in Hearst veteran Christopher Johnson to run programming and product strategy and hired Julie Shumaker to run 1UP, the gaming site it bought earlier this year.