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Scopely: The company has appointed former Supercell GM and Altera head of product Jimmy Lee as VP of strategic marketing.
And following six years at King, where he most recently served as a senior game designer, Víctor Rodríguez Fernández is returning to former employer Scopely in the same role on Monopoly Go.
Arcade: This new mobile games publisher has appointed Alexandre Salem as president. His previous roles include global advertising monetisation director at King, EMEA gaming partnerships solutions lead at Google, global director of gaming at Huawei, and senior VP of operations at Stillfront.
Netflix: There are several new appointments at the streaming giant, including Monty Hernandez as strategic operations lead at Netflix Games. He joins following 11.5 years at Microsoft, including seven at Xbox, where he most served as director of program management and operations.
Following a nine-year spell at EA, where they were most recently director of consumer insights, Jenny Shi has been appointed as head of games research. Mikey Chang has also been promoted from lead producer to manager, game production at Netflix. His previous roles include Niantic group product manager and Twitch lead product manager.
Outfit7: Ex-Gameloft head of marketing and Sybo games marketing director Artem Kadykov has joined the Talking Tom & Friends studio as VP of marketing.
Agora Gaming Partners: Following six years at Miniclip, including the last three as business development manager, Govind Cacciatore has joined investment bank and advisory firm AGP as head of games.
Voodoo: Following almost two years as a senior user acquisition analyst at Zynga, Ecem Gönlüşen has joined the French games firm as UA manager.
Blizzard: Former Socialpoint senior user acquisition manager and Scopely performance marketing manager Lucas Rossi has joined the World of Warcraft maker as senior manager for mobile UA.
Miniclip: The Tencent-owned developer and publisher has appointed Berkant Özdemir as a user acquisition specialist. Their previous roles include marketing manager at Yamy Studio, and marketing expert at Tencent.
Embracer Group: The group has appointed Lee Guinchard as its chief operating officer. He has taken on the position in addition to his existing roles as CEO of Embracer Freemode and president of Middle-earth Enterprises.
Outplay Entertainment: Product Omega founder Elisa Cantamessa has joined the indie developer behind Subway Surfers Blast and Gordon Ramsay: Chef Blast as a product manager.
NaturalMotion: The CSR Racing maker has appointed Ruby Sharma as a senior game producer. She most recently spent 3.5 years as a game producer at Hutch, and previously held the same role at Zynga too.
Liftoff Mobile: The growth acceleration platform has appointed Liftoff Intelligence general manager Brendan Fraher as vice president. The former Jedox sales director is also GM of Liftoff’s GameRefinery.
Craftsman+: The adtech firm has appointed Julian Friedman as VP of strategic partnerships. He was previously a client partner at both Apple and Admazing.
Supercell: Following two years as an operations associate at Ambio, Akusti Aaltonen has started a new job as an AI intern at Supercell’s AI Innovation Lab in Helsinki.
Make-A-Wish UK: The children’s charity has hired Adam Phillips as head of gaming. He joins from Xsolla, where he was business development manager and developer relations lead, and also previously served as head of influencer strategy at Square Enix, and as an associate producer on Tomb Raider at Eidos.
2K: The Take-Two label has hired Daniel Roh as a contract senior recruiter. He most recently spent two years as a technical sourcer for Meta, and was also previously a senior recruiter at EA.
Tebex: The gaming monetisation platform has appointed Nick Aiken as head of global payments and Elliot Greenwood as account executive, North America.
Aiken joins following 18 years at Trainline, where he was most recently director, fraud and payments. Greenwood recently ended a four-year spell as business development and licensing manager at PowerWash Simulator maker FuturLab.
SciPlay: The mobile and web games developer and publisher has promoted former Unity growth partnerships manager Sharon Shamir Saadon to the position of senior ad monetisation manager.
Nitro Games: Former Rovio game designer and Papukaya game lead Collin Foss has been promoted from product lead to creative director at the action and shooter games specialist Nitro.
Reddit: The social networking platform has promoted Edward Syson to the role of senior client partner, global gaming and technology. In his new role, the former Buzzfeed senior client partner will lead partnerships with Take-Two, EA and Uber.
