EA Executives

Frank Gibeau

President, EA Labels

In 2011, Frank Gibeau was appointed President of EA Labels where he leads the transformation of the company into a digital entertainment powerhouse by bringing world-class properties to all gaming platforms – Console, PC, Mobile and Social. He is responsible for product development, worldwide product management and marketing for all packaged goods and online offerings within the four EA Labels; EA SPORTS, EA Games, the Maxis Label and the BioWare Label. Mr. Gibeau’s global operation spans a dozen studio locations with more than 5,000 employees. Mr. Gibeau comes to this role after a four-year tenure as President of the EA Games Label. During that period, Mr. Gibeau led a turn-around that greatly increased product quality and on time delivery while dramatically driving down costs.

The intellectual properties under Mr. Gibeau’s auspices include blockbusters such as: Battlefield, Command & Conquer, Dead Space, Dragon Age, FIFA, Madden NFL, Mass Effect, Medal of Honor, Need for Speed, NBA Jam, NCAA Football NHL, SimCity, Star Wars: The Old Republic, The Sims, Spore, Tiger Woods PGA Tour, Warhammer Online and more.

Prior to serving as President of the EA Games Label, Mr. Gibeau acted as Executive Vice President and General Manager of The Americas where he was directly responsible for a publishing operation that accounted for more than $1.5B of EA’s annual revenue. In this role, Mr. Gibeau directly oversaw product marketing, branding, public relations, marketing communications, sales, operations, and finance. Previously, Mr. Gibeau served as Senior Vice President of North American marketing and has held a variety of senior publishing posts at EA. In these roles, Mr. Gibeau was responsible for driving the go-to-market strategy for the EA and EA SPORTS brands as well as the launch of hundreds of game franchises across multiple platforms that have shipped since 1991.

Mr. Gibeau sits on the Board of Directors of Cooliris, an internet technology company that develops award-winning browser and advertising technology. He is also a two time winner of The Sports Business Journal’s “Forty under Forty” Sports Executives (2006 & 2007) and one of Advertising Age’s 2004 Entertainment Marketers of the Year.

Mr. Gibeau received a B.S. degree from the University of Southern California and a M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. He lives in Atherton, with his wife, Solveig and their three children.
Blake Jorgensen

Chief Financial Officer

Blake Jorgensen is Chief Financial Officer of Electronic Arts, the world’s leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment. Mr. Jorgensen joined EA in September 2012 with over 20 years of experience in finance spanning across different industries, with a deep understanding of technology, consumer products, online commerce and entertainment.

Prior to joining EA, Mr. Jorgensen served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Levi Strauss & Co. Previously, Mr. Jorgensen was Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo! Inc., from June 2007 to June 2009. Before joining Yahoo! Inc., Mr. Jorgensen was the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Director of Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners, which he co-founded in 1998. He has also held financial and operational positions at Montgomery Securities, MAC Group/Gemini Consulting and Marakon Associates.

Mr. Jorgensen holds a degree in Economics from Stanford and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He and his wife Debbie live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Joel Linzner

Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs

Joel Linzner has served as Senior Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs since April 2004. From October 2002 to April 2004, Mr. Linzner held the position of Senior Vice President of Worldwide Business Affairs and from July 1999 to October 2002, he held the position of Vice President of Worldwide Business Affairs. Prior to joining Electronic Arts in July 1999, Mr. Linzner served as outside litigation counsel to Electronic Arts and several others in the videogame industry. Mr. Linzner earned his J.D. from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, after graduating from Brandeis University. He is a member of the Bar of the State of California and is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and several United States District Courts.
Peter Moore

Chief Operating Officer

Peter Moore is Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts, providing strategic leadership for all global operations that enable EA to bring products to market via retail and digital direct-to-consumer channels, including publishing, sales, media, central development and channel management.

Mr. Moore has more than 25 years of experience in gaming, entertainment and consumer products. From September 2007 to August 2011, he held the position of President of EA SPORTS, leading one of the most recognized brands in sports and entertainment. During his tenure, EA SPORTS delivered some of the top-selling sports video games of the current console generation from franchises including FIFA, Madden NFL, NCAA Football and NHL. Mr. Moore’s leadership was also instrumental in the expansion of digital game experiences from EA SPORTS, extending console games through downloadable content as well as bringing EA SPORTS franchises to new gaming platforms including social media and mobile devices.

Prior to joining EA, Mr. Moore was Corporate Vice President of the Interactive Entertainment Business of Microsoft Corp., where he was responsible for leading both the Xbox® and Games for Windows® businesses, driving games development at Microsoft® Game Studios, as well as cultivating relationships with third-party game publishers and developers around the world. Before joining Microsoft, Mr. Moore was President and COO of SEGA of America, where he was responsible for overseeing SEGA’s videogame business in North America. Prior to his role at 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.
Rajat Taneja

Chief Technology Officer

Rajat Taneja is Chief Technology Officer of Electronic Arts, the world’s leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment.

Mr. Taneja joined EA in October 2011 as CTO to drive critical technology decisions and investments for EA on a global basis. Before joining EA, Mr. Taneja spent 15 years at Microsoft where he most recently lead the division responsible for development and deployment of all commerce and transaction technologies across Microsoft’s connected services, including Xbox Live®, Windows Phone®, Windows Azure™, Microsoft® Office 365, Microsoft adCenter® and MSN®. In previous roles at Microsoft, Mr. Taneja was responsible for leading the company’s online digital advertising platforms and its first business online service offering.

Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Taneja held roles at Digital Equipment Corporation and Wipro Information Technology, Ltd.

Mr. Taneja holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University, India, an MBA from Washington State University, and has several US Patents currently in process.
Gabrielle Toledano

Executive Vice President and Chief Talent Officer

Gabrielle Toledano, Executive Vice President and Chief Talent Officer, Electronic Arts is responsible for EA's global staffing and resourcing, benefits and compensation, organization and leadership capability development, rewards and recognition, Facilities and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Prior to joining EA, Ms. Toledano served as Chief Human Resources Officer for Siebel Systems. Prior to that, she served in human resources positions for six years with Microsoft Corporation and several years with Oracle Corporation. Her portfolio has included a wide range of HR assignments including international work, most notably in Latin America. Gabrielle is bilingual and received her bachelor and master degrees from Stanford University, followed by a Rotary Scholarship assignment in Santiago, Chile.

Gabrielle is on the Board of Directors of Big City Mountaineers, a non-profit focused on mentoring and outdoor experiences for disadvantaged kids.
Patrick Söderlund

Executive Vice President, EA Games Label

Patrick Söderlund is the executive vice president of the EA Games Label where he is responsible for product development and marketing of packaged goods and digital releases across such multi-platinum action, racing and shooter franchises as Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Need for Speed and Dead Space. Mr. Söderlund manages studios around the globe from Redwood Shores to Montreal, Guildford, Stockholm and Gothenburg.

Prior to this role, Mr. Söderlund served as the senior vice president of EA Games Europe where he oversaw operations for, DICE, Criterion and Phenomic. During his over seven years at DICE, he took the studio from being a small developer to one of the most successful developers in the world. The studio was sold to EA in October of 2006.

Mr. Söderlund lives with his wife, two daughters and dog in a house just outside Stockholm, Sweden. He used to play for Sweden’s national volleyball team and in his spare time he drives race cars.
Andrew Wilson

Executive Vice President, EA SPORTS

Andrew Wilson is the executive vice president of EA SPORTS, where he provides strategic leadership over one of the most recognized brands in sports and entertainment. Mr. Wilson assumed his position in August 2011 after previously leading worldwide development for EA SPORTS. With more than 11 years of experience at Electronic Arts, Mr. Wilson is responsible for strategic leadership of the brand, from product development and global marketing and planning for all packaged goods and digital services.

Previously in his EA tenure, Mr. Wilson led EA’s Online Organization overseeing the Direct 2 Consumer business, Asia Online Publishing as well as the EA Seoul Studio. Mr. Wilson also previously served as vice president and executive producer of the EA SPORTS FIFA Soccer Division. He was responsible for the strategic, creative and business direction of all EA SPORTS soccer games, including FIFA, FIFA World Cup, Euro, FIFA Manager and FIFA Street.

A native of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Mr. Wilson has worked for EA in all aspects of the business including Business Development, Licensing, Marketing and Production. Before joining EA, Andrew worked for a consortium of online companies that specialized primarily in the creation of content and services in sports and entertainment media.

A life-long sports fan, Mr. Wilson spends his spare time surfing, training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and competing in triathlons.
Ken Barker

Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer

Ken Barker joined Electronic Arts in June of 2003 as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining EA, he served as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at Sun Microsystems. Mr. Barker also served as an audit partner at Deloitte & Touche. He graduated with a degree in Accounting from University of Notre Dame.
Stephen G. Bene

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Stephen Bene has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since October 2004. From April 2004 to October 2004, Mr. Bene held the position of Vice President, Acting General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, and from June 2003 to April 2004, he held the position of Vice President and Associate General Counsel. Prior to June 2003, Mr. Bene had served as internal legal counsel since joining the Company in March 1995. Mr. Bene earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University. Mr. Bene is a member of the Bar of the State of California.

EA Executives

Frank Gibeau

Blake Jorgensen

Joel Linzner

Peter Moore

Rajat Taneja

Gabrielle Toledano

Patrick Söderlund

Andrew Wilson

Ken Barker

Stephen G. Bene