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Scopely: The Monopoly Go maker has appointed Thomas Peng as director of product for its Slate development group, GamingonPhone reports. He was most recently head of product on Racing Master at NetEase, and previously lead product manager of mobile at Respawn.
Playstudios: The LA-based Tetris license holder has hired Nir Hauer as GM. The former co-founder and CEO of Ovio was most recently VP product at 8fig.
Mattel163: The joint venture between Mattel and NetEase has appointed Devin Nambiar as COO. The former Kabam director of product management was most recently GM/head of Asia product and partner development at EA.
Bit Odd: The Finnish startup studio has hired Minjae Kim as marketing lead. Kim has previously worked in marketing roles at Netmarble, Rovio, Aristocrat and Northern Stars Studio.
Krafton: The PUBG firm’s Indian arm has named Shashikiran R as product manager. He most recently held the same title at Jetapult, and was also previously an associate product manager at Super Huge Studios.
Village Studio Games: The Inferni: Hope & Fear maker has appointed Mark Sorrell as director of development. He was previously studio design director at Keywords’ Lively, and is a former Rovio studio head and VP of product.
ZeptoLab: The Cut the Rope firm has hired Ekaterina Baturina as head of business development, GamingonPhone reports. She most recently held the same role at Vizor Interactive, and was previously business development director at Wargaming.
FunPlus: Ex-Mediatonic, First Light Games and Spliced concept artist Tomas Navikas has taken on the same role at the State of Survival maker’s Studio Ellipsis team in Lisbon.
Mistplay: The mobile game loyalty app has appointed Pedro Miranda as principal product manager. He was most recently director of product management at Digital Turbine, and previously served as global head ad operations manager at Unity.
Mattel: Former THQ producer Nate Dykstra has been promoted to director of business development for digital games licensing.
Supercell: As we reported earlier this week, the Finnish mobile studio has appointed former Niantic lead product manager and Hangar 13 associate producer Jessica Jung as AI innovation lab lead.
Wooga: The June’s Journey maker has promoted Pedro Medeiros from the position of product manager, a title he also previously held at Miniclip, to the role of senior live ops product manager.
Kwalee: The UK developer and publisher has promoted former Coda and internal growth manager Sena Bektas to the position of lead growth manager.
