Glu Mobile announced Rocky Pimentel has resigned from his position as executive vice president and CFO to become COO and CFO at McAfee. Eric Ludwig, Glu’s senior vice president of finance and assistant secretary, has been appointed interim CFO and will report to President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Ballard.
“Rocky has played a central role at Glu, building a strong financial organization as well as helping put our global infrastructure in place. I am personally grateful to him for the leadership, expertise and dedication,” Ballard said in a statement. “Eric has played a key role in our finance organization over the past three years. We expect that he will be a prominent, leading candidate in our search for a chief financial officer.”
As senior vice president of finance, Ludwig is responsible for the oversight of all corporate finance and accounting for Glu worldwide including global finance, accounting, tax, treasury and investor relations. Since joining Glu in 2005, Ludwig played a key role in Glu's initial public offering and contributed significantly to the due diligence and integration of Glu's acquistiions of iFone, MIG and Superscape as well as the integration of the acquisition of Macrospace. Prior to joining Glu, Ludwig was CFO, vice president, finance and corporate secretary of Instill Corporation, an on-demand supply chain software company.