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Atari: Crossy Road creator Matt Hall has been named EVP of Atari Mobile, a newly-created role reporting directly to chairman and CEO Wade Rosen. Hall co-founded Hipster Whale, which Atari acquired, and joined the company earlier this year. He will oversee Atari’s mobile business, bring its PC and console games to mobile and take its mobile IP to web, PC and console.
Supercell: Former Metacore CEO Mika Tammenkoski has joined Supercell as senior advisor following on from Metacore’s acquisition by the Clash of Clans maker.
There are plenty more former Metacore staff making the switch to Supercell now the deal is closed: Daniel Pietschke is a new AI engineer at Supercell, Mikael Björke and Idaliina Laine have both joined as client programmers and Mimosa Kovero joins as QA specialist. Livia Antal and Henrik Sarimo have also joined the Hay Day team as creative producers, having previously worked at Side Quest Growth and Metacore.
Topias Kokkinen has also started a new role as Supercell’s live ops and monetisation lead after four years at Bain & Company.
Scopely: Julie Kim has been promoted to lead producer, and Shay Nevo has started as VIP account management team leader after five years at Playtika.
Zynga: Paul Chambers has started as senior design director for new games at Zynga Trinity after co-founding Modma Games, and Matt Branick has joined as a business operations analyst after five years at Warner Bros. Games.
Tripledot: James Timmins has been promoted and is now lead data scientist in the group AI team.
Voodoo: Elif Ece Küskü has joined as a publishing manager after an 11-month stint at Rollic.
Rollic: Ömer Vanlıoğlu has joined as a game manager after a year at Procter & Gamble, Alperen Uzun has left Small Steps Games to start as a product specialist, and Alp Akkaya joins as a junior 2D artist after an internship at Good Job Games.
Loom Games: Gizem Karatas is the new product manager, and Ahmet Nurda O. has started as a product specialist after two years at Gamegos.
Gear Games: William S. Schmitt has been appointed general manager after heading up OldNerd64 Productions as CEO.
Tactile Games: Mads Anthony has joined as a gameplay programmer after three years at Aloha Games, and Natalia Tereshchenko has moved over from Innovecs, where she also worked as a level designer.
Mistplay: Thomas Ghiazza has joined as director of business development for EMEA, leading growth of its LoyaltyPlay product across the region. He spent the previous five years at Ogury.
Xsolla: Laurent Munier is the new VP of EMEA partnerships, leaving Ubisoft after five years.
Appcharge: Ronen Morecki has joined as chief operating officer to lead payments strategy and scale its merchant of record platform. He co-founded ZooZ, was previously CTO of PayU and was most recently VP of payments at monday.com.
AdSurge: Vincent Bernardin has joined new ad network AdSurge, which is built on Miniclip’s expertise and Tencent’s technology, as head of EMEA.
Bidease: Dock Kim has joined as VP of business development after more than seven years at Moloco, where he led go-to-market, ran its revenue teams and oversaw supply partnerships. He will lead Bidease’s go-to-market across North America, LATAM and EMEA.
Appier: Sanam Lou has joined as VP of global marketing, leading its marketing teams across EMEA, APAC and the US. She has more than 25 years of experience across ad tech, gaming and enterprise software.
