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Scopely: The Monopoly Go maker has appointed Shlomi Aizenberg as chief business officer. He previously spent 13 years at Playtika, including three as its chief operating officer.
Stillfront: The Swedish roll-up firm has appointed Tim Holland as interim group chief financial officer. The former Hothead Games CFO has been at the company since 2019 and most recently served as deputy group CFO.
Rovio: The Angry Birds maker has a new product manager in Emirhan Aydın, who was previously senior product specialist at Magic Games.
Metacore: Former Tripledot Studios associate product manager Kaan Sismanlar has joined the Merge Mansion maker as product manager.
King: There have been two promotions at the Candy Crush maker, GamingonPhone reports. Janani Dumbleton has moved from senior director, product, data and machine learning, to vice president, decision enablement.
And Eva Ryott, who was formerly VP, head of core gameplay, Candy Crush Saga, has been appointed as head of live operations, shared tech.
Google: The search engine giant has promoted Eren Gökgür from senior strategic partner manager, monetisation for apps and gaming, to the role of principal business development manager.
Moloco: Former Unity senior growth partnerships manager Carlos Claverie has joined the machine learning company as supply partner manager.
Neon: Former Adverty chief supply officer Chloe Cave has joined the DTC commerce platform as head of growth.
Grokka Games: Ex-FunPlus art director and Metacore visual development artist Juanbi Alonso has started a new position as co-founder and art director at Grokka Games.
Sensemitter: Following 11 years at Adjust, where she was most recently chief product officer, Katie Madding has joined the player experience analytics firm as CEO.
Voodoo: The French games firm has hired Paolo Gambardella as game design consultant. He was previously a senior game designer at Tangelo Games, as well as Scopely’s Genjoy.
Exmox: Ex-TikTok Live growth manager Beril Gizem Sile has joined the UA firm as user acquisition manager, while Difei G. has come on board as senior performance marketing manager, having previously held the same role at Amazon Ads.
Ex-Sunday business development manager Nicholas Bloom has taken on the position of account manager, while Alíz Serfőző is a new junior technical account manager, and Bhupinder Kaur has joined as project manager – geo expansion.
Senior QA engineer Hanna Nasi previously held the same role at Adjust, Vanessa Welter is a new office manager, and Veronica Mejia has joined as a recruiter.
Duamentes: The growth and strategy alliance has named Maria Amirkhanyan as head of its gaming division. She was most recently head of games user research at My.Games.
Exient: The Lemmings and Ultimate Sackboy maker has promoted Lara Caruana Montaldo to the position of senior programmer.
Ares Interactive: As we reported previously, the Austin, Texas-based outfit, which was founded last year by former Glu Mobile CEO Niccolo De Masi, has hired Mike DeLaet as president. The pair previously worked together at Glu, and more recently DeLaet has served as Rogue Games founder and CEO, SVP of strategic partnerships at Scopely, and global head of digital gaming at Mattel.
