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Executive Officers
The following table sets forth information regarding our executive officers as of May 23, 2008:
Name Age Position
John S. Riccitiello ................. 48 ChiefExecutive Officer
EricF.Brown.................... 42 Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Frank D. Gibeau .................. 39 President, EA Games Label
Peter Moore . .................... 53 President, EA Sports Label
John Pleasants .................... 42 President, Global Publishing and Chief Operating Officer
Nancy L. Smith ................... 55 President, The Sims Label
Kathy Vrabeck ................... 45 President, EA Casual Entertainment
Gerhard Florin.................... 49 Executive Vice President, General Manager, International
Publishing
Joel Linzner . .................... 56 Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs
Gabrielle Toledano ................ 41 Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Kenneth A. Barker ................ 41 Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
Stephen G. Bené .................. 44 Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate
Secretary
Mr. Riccitiello has served as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Electronic Arts since April 2007. Prior
to re-joining Electronic Arts, he was a co-founder and Managing Partner at Elevation Partners, a private equity
fund. From October 1997 to April 2004, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Electronic
Arts. Prior to joining Electronic Arts, Mr. Riccitiello served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the
worldwide bakery division at Sara Lee Corporation. Before joining Sara Lee, he served as President and CEO
of Wilson Sporting Goods Co. and has also held executive management positions at Haagen-Dazs, PepsiCo,
Inc. and The Clorox Company. Mr. Riccitiello holds a B.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Brown has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer since April 2008. Prior to re-
joining Electronic Arts, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of McAfee, Inc., a
security technology company from March 2006 until March 2008. From January 2005 until March 2006,
Mr. Brown was McAfee’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Brown served as President
and Chief Financial Officer of MicroStrategy Incorporated, a business intelligence software provider, from
2000 until 2004. From October 1998 until February 2000, Mr. Brown served as Chief Financial Officer of one
of EA’s business units and then Chief Operating Officer of EA’s studio organization in Redwood City, CA.
Prior to that time, Mr. Brown was co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of DataSage, Inc. Mr. Brown also
held several senior financial positions with Grand Metropolitan from 1990 until 1995. Mr. Brown received an
M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in
Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Gibeau was named President, EA Games Label in June 2007. Prior to that time, he had served as
Executive Vice President, General Manager, North America Publishing beginning in September 2005. From
2002 until September 2005, he was Senior Vice President of North American Marketing. Mr. Gibeau has held
various publishing positions since joining the company in 1991. Mr. Gibeau holds a B.S. degree from the
University of Southern California and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
Mr. Moore was named President, EA Sports, in September 2007. From January 2003 until he joined
Electronic Arts, Mr. Moore was with Microsoft where he served as head of Xbox marketing and was later
named as Corporate Vice President, Interactive Entertainment Business, Entertainment and Devices Division, a
position in which he led both the Xbox and Games for Windows businesses. Prior to joining Microsoft,
Mr. Moore was president and Chief Operating Officer of SEGA of America, where he was responsible for
overseeing SEGA’s video game business in North America. Before joining SEGA, Mr. Moore was Senior Vice
President of Marketing at Reebok International Ltd. Mr. Moore holds a bachelor’s degree from Keele
University, United Kingdom, and a master’s degree from California State University, Long Beach.
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