SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mobile social games leader ngmoco, a DeNA Co. Ltd (2432.T) company, has named executive Joanna Drake Earl its Chief Operating Officer. Earl will lead day-to-day operations at ngmoco, including driving the launch of Mobage, ngmoco’s global next-generation mobile entertainment network.
Prior to joining ngmoco, Earl was the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Current TV, where her responsibilities included Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Digital Products, Marketing, Distribution and International Operations. Previously she was the Vice President of Content at MOXI and Vice President of Business and Product Development at ReacTV.
“Joanna brings a career’s worth of experience at the crossroads of new media and technology to ngmoco,” said Neil Young, CEO of ngmoco. “Her transformative work in architecting and managing participatory media platforms at Current TV will be central to bringing the Mobage mobile entertainment network to life around the world. She brings deep expertise to our executive team and we’re thrilled to have her join ngmoco.”
“I’m excited to help shape the future of mobile entertainment with ngmoco,” said Joanna Drake Earl, COO of ngmoco. “Games are only the beginning. We’re just starting to harness what’s possible for a truly mobile entertainment network and Mobage is a bold step into the future of how consumers will discover, share and interact with content around the world.”
Mobage, currently in beta in English-speaking territories around the world, is the premier destination for mobile users to play high-quality social games with a vibrant worldwide community. Mobage also empowers the world’s best game-makers by providing easy-to-use tools and a platform for releasing blockbuster content for consumers around the globe.
For more information on ngmoco, please visit http://blog.ngmoco.com. Developers interested in developing for Mobage can download the free SDK and get more information at https://developer.mobage.com.
About ngmoco
ngmoco is the world's leading social mobile gaming company. Headquartered in San Francisco and with studios in New York, Portland and Amsterdam, ngmoco creates and publishes games for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android in collaboration with the best and brightest game makers in the world. ngCore technology is patent pending. To find out more about Mobage Smartphone SDK visit https://developer.mobage.com. To witness the lives and minds of the ngmoco team at work on the future of social mobile gaming, visit http://www.ngmoco.com.
About DeNA
DeNA Co., Ltd. is a world-leading Web service company that operates the Mobage social gaming platform, social networking services and e-commerce websites. Drawing on its extensive community base and rapidly expanding developer line-up, Mobage currently serves over 30 million users in Japan with more than 1,000 game titles for smartphones, feature phones and PCs. The company generated annual sales of more than 1.3 billion U.S. dollars in fiscal year ended March 2011. To expand the Mobage platform globally, DeNA is building a presence in the US, Europe and in China. DeNA is listed on the Tokyo stock exchange (2432). For more information, please visit http://www.dena.jp/en.