Oct 5, 2010 13:09 GMT  ·  By

Yahoo's former employees have no trouble finding jobs, it seems. David Ko, one of the three execs to leave the company in the latest wave of departures, has now landed a job at Zynga, one of the hottest startups of the moment.

This after Jimmy Pitaro went to work for Disney, interestingly, alongside Playdom's former CEO John Pleasants. Playdom was a Zynga competitor that got acquired by Disney.

Ko, who was head of the US Audience unit, will be joining Zynga to lead the company's mobile efforts. Ko was previously involved with Yahoo's mobile unit. Reportedly, Zynga has been pursuing him for months.

“We are thrilled that David Ko has joined the Zynga team as senior vice president, mobile. David’s extensive experience will be instrumental in his leadership of the Zynga global mobile strategy. David will report to CEO and Founder Mark Pincus,” Zynga has stated.

Zynga sees mobile as the next big opportunity for the company which has already conquered the social networking space. It's games top Facebook's most popular app list and the company has a couple of hundred of millions of users in total.

Revenue is strong as well, it seems, as predictions constantly get adjusted upwards. Continuing this trend, Zynga may very well be on its way to matching Facebook in terms of revenue.

There is also a partnership with Google in the works, which has yet to materialize, not to mention a significant amount of funding, several hundreds of millions of dollars.

Recently Zynga has been looking East at the Asian market. It opened offices in Tokyo and has received funding from Softbank, one of the largest mobile operators in the country. Web-connected mobile devices are extremely popular in Japan and Zynga has its eye on the potentially lucrative market.

Ko will apparently be leading that attack and his previous experience recommends him. Before being head of audience, he served as head of the mobile division at Yahoo and in various other positions at Yahoo having to do with mobile devices and services.