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Supercell: Clash of Clans has a new VP of global marketing in Jon Rosenblatt. The former Ubisoft, EA Sports and Eidos marketing manager joins from Amazon Games, where he served as publishing director, EMEA.
Scopely: Former Metacore and Unity product lead Dish Eldishnawy has joined the company as senior director of product. Martyn Hilder has also been promoted from senior producer to product manager on Monopoly Go.
Netflix: There are several appointments at the streaming giant. Ready Player Me co-founder and ex-CTO Rainer Selvet has taken on the role of director, games engineering.
Former Ready Player Me head of partner success Tom Gilchrist has also joined Netflix as partner engagement manager. And Lindsey Williamson Christy has been promoted to as senior manager of game production.
Homa: Former GM and senior VP, product and analytics Ayush Singh has started a new role as chief product officer and group GM – RPG. And ex-Scopely director of product Haider Choonawala has joined the Paris-based publisher and developer in the same role.
Hutch: The London-based racing game studio has hired Shaunak Vaichal as creative director on F1 Clash. His previous roles include lead game design and product strategy at Niantic, and design manager at PikPok.
Small Giant Games: The Helsinki-based Zynga studio has appointed Petrik Sandberg as senior game designer. He most recently held the same role at Two Desperados, and was also previously a game designer at Metacore.
Plarium: After 4.5 years at Playtika, Ophir Shmuel Bittner has joined the Raid: Shadow Legends maker as marketing data analytics team lead.
Apple: The iPhone maker has appointed Avtar Ram Singh as head of international marketing for the App Store, Apple Arcade and the Games App. He was formerly head of marketing – Southeast Asia, content and services.
Delphi Interactive: The studio behind this summer’s Netflix-exclusive FIFA game has appointed Julien Merceron as its chief technology officer. He’s a former CTO and worldwide technology leader at Bandai Namco, Konami, Square Enix, IO Interactive, Eidos, and Ubisoft.
Play Studios: The Tetris license holder has hired Lital Jaffe as director of product. He joined following six years at Playtika, where he most recently served as product team lead.
Trailmix Games: Pearson Ham Group finance director Marion Lespiau has been appointed as senior finance and compliance manager at the Love & Pies maker.
Arcade: The mobile games publisher has appointed Shailja Mittal as head of marketing. Her previous roles include manager, global UA at Stillfront, and manager, growth marketing and UA at Zynga.
Fortis Games: Former Tilting Point chief growth officer Jean Sebastien Laverge has taken on the same role at Fortis. He was also previously business performance director at Gameloft.
Griffin: The gaming venture capital fund’s partner and COO Emily Wang has taken on the additional role of CFO. Sharp Alpha managing partner Lloyd Danzig has also been named as a venture partner at Griffin.
Huuuge Games: The Billionaire Casino and Huuuge Casino maker has promoted Damian Finan from director of player services to VP of player services and VIP.
Playtika: Former senior business analyst Shlomy Revivo has started a new position as business analytics team leader at the Israeli developer and publisher. Eilon Segev has also changed roles, from technical operations team leader to product manager.
MobilityWare: The card and puzzle games specialist has promoted Orian Livnat from director of product to senior director of product.
Xsolla: The payments firm has promoted George Wooden to the position of senior growth marketing manager.
Paxie Games: The Merge Studio maker has promoted Ecem Kaya to the position of senior growth manager.
SuperPlay: Former senior product manager Aviv Adato has taken on the role of product team lead at the Dice Dreams, Domino Dreams and Disney Solitaire maker.
