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Trailmix: The London studio has hired Felicity Gracie-Herst as the new game lead of flagship title Love & Pies. She joins Trailmix from King, where she was head of operations on Farm Heroes Saga. She has also worked across production, project management and development roles at Square-Enix Mobile London, Microsoft, Ndreams, Gree and EA.
Trailmix has also hired Tish Graham as a senior QA engineer. Graham was previously a senior software development engineer in test at Mediatonic, and a developer in test at Bossa Studios.
Adjust: The AppLovin-owned measurement firm has appointed Andrey Kazakov as its new CEO following amid layoffs at the Berlin-based outfit. It’s a return to the company for Kazakov after he founded Acquired.io, which was later bought by Adjust, which itself was acquired by AppLovin.
There’s much more information on what’s going on at Adjust in our report from earlier today.
Electronic Arts: EA has appointed Christopher Fady as director of product. He previously held the same job title for Angry Birds 2 at Rovio and Star Trek Fleet Command at Scopely, and oversaw a portfolio of Gameloft titles as director of products.
Sandsoft: Having served as an advisor to the Saudi publisher for the past four months, Dima Pinchuk has joined as growth director in the company’s Barcelona office. He previously held the same role at Codigames, and has also worked at the likes of Take-Two, Socialpoint and Wargaming.
Sony PlayStation: As we reported last week, PlayStation has named Olivier Courtemarche as its new head of mobile. The former Meta and Zynga exec, who has also worked at Disney and EA, takes on the role having previously shared it with ex-Kabam exec Kris Davis.
Justin Kubiak, who was formerly licensing and developer partnerships for mobile at PlayStation Studios, has also been appointed as head of mobile business development and partnerships.
Sunday: The German hybridcasual publisher has hired Angeles Koiman as UX designer and Kevin Gelking as senior Unity developer. Koiman was previously UX principal product artist at Etermax, while Gelking has also held developer roles at Sviper and Xyrality.
Embrace: Following two and a half years as VP, head of product, former New Relix exec and Amazon technical product manager Andrew Tunall has been promoted to president at Embrace.
Metica: The user acquisition and monetisation platform has appointed Mateusz Bochenczak as director of business development. He joins from marketing and analytics firm AppsFlyer, where he was most recently global account executive EMEA, and has also previously worked as gaming growth manager at Google.
Raptor PR: Enzo Vallente has joined as junior account manager, having previously spent two and a half years at Haymaker Group, where he was most recently senior account executive. Clara Vazquez, a former production assistant at Bethnal Films, has also come on board as junior account executive.
