Social & Games RICCARDO ZACCONI |KING.COM CEO SPEAKER BIO Riccardo Zacconi is the CEO and co-founder of King, the world’s leading cross-platform social games developer. Prior to establishing King, Zacconi was vice president of sales and marketing in Europe for the successful dating service, uDate.com, and was instrumental in driving the market penetration and partnerships which led to the eventual buyout by InterActive Corporation (IAC). Before that, he was CEO for Spray Network, the online portal in Hamburg,with presencein Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. KEY CORPORATE FACTS& KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW Headquarters London, UK King.com, is a social games company, and the largest game developer ever in the history of Stockholm, Barcelona, Bucharest, Malmö, the website Facebook.com. King develops games for the web, for mobile (iOS, Android, Office Locations London, San Francisco, Malta Windows Phone), Facebook, and Windows 10. King is led by Riccardo Zacconi, who has Founded 2003 served in that role since co-founding the company in 2003. Founding partner Melvyn Morris serves as chairman. The company has 1400 employees and parcels development out to No of Employees 1,400 small, autonomous teams of designers working with a "startup" mentality. In 2013, it spent $110.5 million on research and development, roughly 6 percent of sales. On 26 March 2014, Active Markets Worldwide King completed its initial public offering (IPO). Priced at $22.50 a share, the middle of its Business Overview Social games developer projected price range, the IPO valued the company at US$7.08 billion. About $500 million was raised through the sale of 22.2 million shares. KPI #1 324m average monthly unique users Key Investors Went public in March 2014 Website king.com 44