Background
Zacconi was born in 1968 in Rome, Italy.
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Riccardo Zacconi
Edit ProfileChief Executive Officer King Digital Entertainment
Education
He attended Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome from where he graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor’s degree in economics.
Career
King Digital Entertainment is the developer of the popular mobile games app Candy Crush Saga. After leaving university, Zacconi worked as a consultant. One of his roles during this time included a six-year period as project manager at Boston Consulting Group, between 1993 and 1999.
His first career role was as a consultant during a two year long stint at LEK consulting, between 1991 and 1993.
At the start of the dotcom boom in 1999, Zacconi joined the Swedish online messaging startup Spray before it was purchased by Lycos Europe in 2000. In 2001, he left Spray and moved to the United Kingdom to become vice president of European sales and marketing at Terrence "Lee" Zehrer’s uDate.
He left this company shortly after its merger with Match.com and in March 2003, he co-founded King Digital Entertainment, becoming the Chief Executive Officer. He has since grown the company into one of the most successful mobile gaming businesses worldwide. Zacconi is a leading figure in the United Kingdom tech industry and is a proponent of the United Kingdom government’s efforts to establish a tech city in East London.
According to an interview in the Daily Telegraph, he also has a positive reputation in San Francisco as a leading tech figure following a dinner with Mark Zuckerberg.
He was reportedly identified as the posterchild for Europe’s mobile gaming sector.
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