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Scopely: Ex-Rovio lead product manager Anastasia Kuprina has joined Scopely as associate director of product management. And former Gameloft product manager Aravind Iyengar has taken on the same role on Monopoly Go.
Scopely has also promoted former IGG GTM operations manager Gabriele Simonetti to senior manager of AI solutions, and Sergi Roca Tejada is also moving up from associate live operations lead to live operations lead.
Google: Former Netflix senior game producer John Faciane has joined the tech firm as an associate partner manager on the Google Play games partnerships team. Jamie Lee has also started a new position as head of business development at Google Play games partnerships. She was previously head of Korea Play partnerships.
CrazyLabs: The Coffee Mania and Bus Frenzy maker has hired Marina Feres Hallack as user acquisition lead. She joins from TapNation, where she held the same role.
Small Giant Games: Ex-Rovio head of marketing Burcum Taskaya Korkmaz has joined the Zynga studio as growth director.
Griffin: The gaming venture capital fund has appointed Chris Heatherly as a venture partner. He previously spent 14 years at Disney, where his roles included SVP/GM of its mobile games division, before leaving to launch NBC Universal’s gaming business.
Funday Games: The Danish indie studio behind Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor will appoint Sybo founder and president Bodie Jahn-Mulliner as chair of the board on an interim basis. He will succeed Mathias Gredal Nørvig, the CEO of the Subway Surfers maker, which is Funday’s largest minority investor.
Stillfront: The Swedish roll-up firm has appointed Mohammad Alhaj Hasan, Waleed Tuffaha and Thomas Vollmöller as new members of its board of directors. The board also consists of Lars-Johan Jarnheimer as chairman, Erik Forsberg as deputy chairman, and Maria Hedengren.
Loom Games: The Istanbul-based mobile game studio behind Pixel Flow has appointed Yigit Can Kusas as game developer. He was most recently a senior game developer at Surpass Games.
Miniclip: The Tencent-owned developer and publisher has promoted Dina Rashdan from senior to lead product manager.
King: The Candy Crush maker has appointed Iris Shin as senior product analyst. They were previously associate product manager.
Activision Blizzard: The Overwatch maker has promoted Jose Quintero from senior to lead product manager.
Supercell: The Finnish mobile studio has promoted former Nintendo and Epic Games marketing boss Rob Lowe from head of marketing to chief marketing officer.
