Facebook has announced that they have hired Sean Ryan to be director of game partnerships. He will report to Ethan Beard, director of the Facebook Developer Network, and help manage relations with Facebook’s variety of developers.

Ryan’s experience focuses on the gaming and monetization space as acting CEO of Live Journal, CEO of virtual world Meez and most recently as EVP and GM of Games at News Corp. Digital. Ryan will work closely with Cory Ondrejka and Bruce Rogers, who head up Facebook games engineering efforts.

Source: All Things Digital