Bernard Kim

Bernard Kim is the President of Publishing for Zynga, the mobile game company responsible for recent titles such as FarmVille 3, Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells and the upcoming Star Wars: Hunters. He is a mobile gaming and interactive entertainment veteran with more than 15 years of experience. In his role, Bernard oversees how the company brings its games and services to players around the world through global marketing, user acquisition, ad monetization, revenue, communications, consumer insights, product management, business development and strategic partnerships. He manages teams across 11 countries and throughout the U.S. including an office in Austin.

He also manages Zynga’s efforts around mergers and acquisitions, leading the company’s groundbreaking acquisitions of StarLark, Echtra Games, Chartboost, Rollic, Peak Games, Gram Games and Small Giant Games. Bernard serves as Zynga’s point person for the mobile and entertainment industries. He was honored as a Mobile Legend at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2020 and in 2019, he accepted PocketGamer’s #1 Top Developer award on behalf of Zynga.

Prior to joining Zynga, Bernard spent nearly 10 years at Electronic Arts Inc., as the company’s Senior Vice President of Mobile Publishing. During his tenure at EA, Bernard also led EA’s games division in Asia and helped bring EA franchises including SimCity, Star Wars, The Sims, The Simpsons, Real Racing and EA SPORTS to billions of players. Before joining EA, Bernard served as Director of Sales and Channel Strategy at The Walt Disney Company, where he led sales and retail for Disney Mobile.

Bernard holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Economics and Communications from Boston College.