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July 14 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc said on Wednesday
it has hired a former Facebook executive to lead its video games
unit as the company ramps up its efforts to grow beyond its
traditional streaming business.
The streaming giant hired Mike Verdu, who was most recently
a Facebook vice president, as VP of game development and he will
report to Chief Operating Officer Greg Peters.
Verdu founded his own defense software company at age 20 and
sold it before shifting his team into video games in 1990.
He has been there ever since, working at Atari, Electronic
Arts, Kabam and other developers and overseeing games