Ellen Siminoff became a director in May 2022, following Take-Two’s combination with Zynga. Ms. Siminoff previously served on the board of Zynga from 2012 through 2022, serving as a member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Ms. Siminoff is a long-tenured media and technology executive and board member. From 2007 to 2018, she was President and CEO of Shmoop University, an educational publishing company which has built millions of units of content. Ms. Siminoff served as President and CEO of Efficient Frontier, a pioneer in the field of dynamic Search Engine Marketing (SEM) management services (sold to Adobe). Prior to Efficient Frontier, Ms. Siminoff spent six years as a founding executive at Yahoo!. During her tenure, she led Business Development (Vice President, Business Development and Planning), Corporate Development (Senior Vice President, Corporate Development) and ran the Small Business and Entertainment Business units.

Among other boards and advisory relationships, she currently serves on the board of Commerce.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMRC), a leading SAAS ecommerce platform, and the board of Verifone, a privately-held pre-eminent global payments platform. Ms. Siminoff previously served as a member of the board of directors of Zynga Inc. from 2012 to May 2022, when we acquired Zynga. Until April 2022, Ms. Siminoff served on the board of Discovery Education, a global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources and professional learning for K-12 classrooms, and she currently serves on the board of Follett, a privately-held leading provider of educational technology, services, and print and digital content. She has served as a member of the Advisory Board of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and served on the President's Advisory Council of Princeton University. Ms. Siminoff serves on the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution as of September 2022. Other prior board experiences include SolarWinds, US Auto Parts Network, Journal Communications, and Mozilla Corporation, the developers of Firefox browsers. In 2005 she was one of eight industry professionals named “Masters of Information” by Forbes magazine.

Ms. Siminoff graduated from Stanford's Graduate School of Business with an M.B.A. and Princeton University with an A.B. in Economics. Ms. Siminoff received a Master Liberal Arts Extension in Software Engineering from Harvard University Extension School in 2023. Ms. Siminoff was selected to serve on our Board of Directors due to her breadth of professional experiences in emerging growth and technology companies, her backgrounds in marketing and advertising, her knowledge of consumer trends and expertise in corporate and business development, her governance experience as a director of several public companies, and her success in a variety of industries.