Bing Gordon

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Not to be confused with the character from Little Britain USA.

Bing Gordon

Occupation	Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

William "Bing" Gordon is an executive in the video game industry. He served ten years as Chief Creative Officer of video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts (EA) prior to his current partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). He was a founding director of Audible.com and is currently a board member of Amazon, Ngmoco, and Zynga.^[1]

Gordon graduated from Cranbrook School in 1968. He studied drama and literature and earned a BA from Yale University. He waited tables at Max's Kansas City and acted off-Broadway in New York City. He turned down an offer from NYU's drama department and moved to the Bay Area where he received an MBA from Stanford in 1978.^[1]

After working as an account executive at the advertising firm Ogilvy and Mather, Gordon joined EA in 1982 working as the marketing department. In 2005, he took a faculty chair position at the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division after EA invested in the fledgling program. On April 28, 2008 Gordon announced plans to leave EA to join the venture capital KPCB starting June 2008.

Gordon was the recipient of the 2011 Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award.^[2]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Team Member Bing Gordon". Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
↑ "Special Awards". Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 12 February 2011.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bing Gordon.

MobyGames' Rap Sheet on Bing Gordon
"He's Got Games", a Bing Gordon profile from The Washington Post

Electronic Arts

Employees

Founder	Trip Hawkins

Current	Larry Probst (Executive Chairman) Andrew Wilson (CEO) Peter Moore (COO) Will Wright Joe Ybarra

Former	Bing Gordon Jeff Green Ralph Guggenheim Robin Hunicke Greg Kasavin

Subsidiaries

Current	BioWare Criterion Games EA Brazil EA Canada EA Casual Entertainment EA China EA Deutschland EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE LA) EA France EA Freestyle EA India EA Korea EA Romania EA Russia EA Mobile EA Montreal EA North Carolina EA Philippines EA Salt Lake EA Singapore EA Sports EA Tiburon Easy Studios European Integration Studio Ghost Games Maxis Mythic Entertainment North American Testing Center PopCap Games Visceral Games

Defunct	Bullfrog Productions Danger Close DICE Canada EA Baltimore EA Black Box EA Bright Light EA Chicago EA Japan EA Pacific EA Phenomic EA Seattle EA UK Kesmai Origin Systems Pandemic Studios Playfish Victory Games Westwood Studios

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