近日，社交游戏公司Zynga对管理层大动手术。目前距离该公司计划的上市日期仅剩几周时间。

    最受人关注的调整要数首席商务官欧文•凡•纳塔宣布离职，纳塔于去年初加盟Zynga，此前他曾在MySpace和Facebook担任高管职位。纳塔将保留Zynga董事会职位并将继续担任顾问，负责公司重要战略合作伙伴关系。不过（据公布的过渡通知函称）由于离职，纳塔将损失超过价值460万美元的限制性股票认购权。

    我的理解是，不会有人来填补首席商务官这个空缺，而且实际上早在几个月前，凡•纳塔就开始着手缩减其日常工作量。此外，该职位的工作基本上已经被首席运营官约翰•沙佩特和首席营收/营销官杰夫•卡尔普接管。

    Zynga还宣布风险投资家布拉德•菲尔德将离开董事会，菲尔德旗下的公司是Zynga最早的投资者之一。菲尔德这么晚才离开，真是让人吃惊。当然，更让人吃惊的是，像菲尔德这样的早期投资者竟然至今一直呆在Zynga董事会。取代菲尔德的是电子邮件公司Brightmail前首席执行官苏尼尔•保罗，后者曾和Zynga首席执行官马克•平克斯一起创立过新创企业FreeLoader。

    千万不要认为这些重大变化更会影响Zynga首次公开募股（IPO）的进程。毕竟已经有先例，马格•乔治爱迪斯（前谷歌高管——译注）在9月底空降团购网站Groupon成为其首席运营官，但这似乎并未影响到该公司的股票定价。

    还有一条非管理层的新闻，根据美国证券交易委员会（SEC）的要求，Zynga对分割用户预支费用的方式做了微调，此后将按照季度进行统计，而不是年度。

    译者：项航

    Zynga has made some major changes to its management team, just weeks before the social gaming company is expected to go public.

    The most notable move is the resignation of chief business officer Owen Van Natta, who joined the company early last year after stints at both MySpace and Facebook. He will remain on Zynga's board and continue to advise on major strategic partnerships, but the resignation costs him more than 4.6 million in unvested stock options (according to this transition letter).

    My understanding is that the role of chief business officer will not be filled, and that Van Natta actually began cutting back on his day-to-day workload several months ago. Instead, the position's responsibilities have basically been assumed by chief operating officer John Schappert and chief revenue/marketing officer Jeff Karp.

    Zynga also announced that Brad Feld, a venture capitalist whose firm was among Zynga's original investors, is stepping down from the board of directors. Surprising that it's happening so late, although perhaps less surprising than that an early-stage VC like Feld was still on the board in the first place. He will be replaced by Sunil Pau, the former CEO of Brightmail who once co-founded a startup called FreeLoader with Zynga CEO Mark Pincus.

    Don't expect any of this to significantly impact the company's IPO prospects. After all, Margo Georgiadis stepped down as Groupon's COO in late September, and it didn't seem to affect the company's ability to price.

    In non-management news, Zynga also made a slight modification to the way it breaks down payer bookings, per request of the SEC. It now does so by quarter, rather than by year.