Education

He studied music, math, and physics at UC Santa Cruz. Michael enjoys playing the violin and piano.

Career

Prior to Zynga, he designed and built the core systems for eUniverse, a Los Angeles-based Internet marketing company founded in 1998 that owned the MySpace website. Then Michael developed web caching and filesystem/kernel technology at Network Appliance. NetApp, Inc. (Network Appliance) is a provider of storage systems and data management solutions for information technology (IT) infrastructures.

Achievements

• He is a co-founder and former chief technology officer of the company "Zynga", a provider of social game services. The company develops social games that work stand-alone on mobile phone platforms such as Apple iOS and Android and on the Internet through its website, Zynga.com, and social networking websites such as Facebook, Google+, and Tencent. Zynga states its mission as "connecting the world through games."

Interests

• violin, piano

Connections

co-founder of Zynga:

Justin Waldron

Justin, one of the co-founders of mobile games giant Zynga, decided to leave the company some six and a half years after helping create its first game and scale its business.