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Miniclip: The Tencent-owned developer and publisher has appointed Ankush Madad as publishing lead. He joins from Tripledot Studios, where he was senior management in new and puzzle games at Lion Studios.
Supercell: There are four new hires at the Finnish studio. Cassandra Villareal has been hired as a senior corporate brand and communications manager, working across Supercell’s games portfolio. Her previous roles include global PR relations manager at Blizzard and senior comms manager at Epic.
Following five years at Druid Creative Gaming, where he was most recently an account manager, Rodrigo Bio has joined the company as marketing producer and project manager for LatAm.
The Brawl Stars maker has also hired former Houston Analytics, Nightingale Health and HappySignals data scientist Seija Sirkiä as an external data engineer.
Wong Chee Chun has joined Supercell too, as devops engineer. He most recently served as platform engineering lead during three years at Metacore.
Scopely: Following four years as senior director, QA engineering at Epic Games, Michelle Mangio has taken on the same role at the Monopoly Go maker.
Former Zynga and NaturalMotion producer Anuj Patwari has also started a new role at Scopely as a producer on Star Trek Fleet Command.
The company has also hired Nathan Ng as a senior live operations manager. He was previously a live operations specialist at Activision Blizzard and Kabam.
Socialpoint: The Dragon City and Monster Legends maker has hired Unai Sanchez as senior product manager within its new games team. He was previously founder and CPO at LuneLabs, head product manager at Tellmewow, and CEO and Founder of MoonDark Digital Entertainment.
Ares Interactive: The Texas-based outfit has appointed Harold Hung as lead game designer. He previously spent almost 13 years at Kabam, where he most recently served as lead systems designer on Marvel: Contest of Champions.
Tilting Point: The mobile game publisher – and now UA financing firm – has hired Elisa Lopez as director of UA partnerships. She joins from her role as UA lead at performance marketing firm Addict Mobile, where she worked nearly six years.
Xsolla: The payments firm has appointed Darren Newnham as head of developer relations in UK and Ireland. He was previously co-founder and CEO of indie publisher The CoLab and CEO at United Label.
Embracer: Group CFO Müge Bouillon has taken on the additional position of deputy CEO at the Swedish rollup firm. She has over 20 years of experience in finance, including roles as CFO at Asmodee Group, Hana Group and Paule Ka.
Ace Games: Former Philip Morris International data and analytics intern Neriman Nisanur Celik has started a new position as data analyst at the Fiona’s Farm maker.
King: Following three years as a senior associate at professional services form EY, Hal Mogridge has joined the Candy Crush maker as a senior financial analyst.
SplitMetrics: The app growth and mobile marketing platform has hired Hawley Shpiro as managing director, Americas. Her previous roles include Unity Luna Amer sales and partnerships lead, and MobileAction global director, sales and strategic partnerships.
Ludia: The Montreal-based studio has promoted Stuart Marchant from technical lead to technical director. He joined the Jurassic World Alive maker in 2022, following spells as a lead programmer at Gameloft and research development team lead at Playtika.
