Josh has been in games for the last 10 years and is currently Vice President, Commercial Leader at Activision Blizzard. He started his gaming career as a growth PM at a Facebook games startup called Playdom, which ended up selling to Disney for $763M. After that, Josh went to be the first employee and founding PM at Scopely in Los Angeles, helping to grow the team from 4 to >100 in just 2 years. He then headed to Zynga, where he led the growth team, was Zynga's head of product management, and then led the With Friends franchise, the company's largest division by DAU and revenue. Josh also likes to spend time as a growth/startup advisor at 500 Startups, as an instructor at Reforge, and as a frequent lecturer to aspiring PMs at USC Marshall.
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