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Zynga: Following four years at Scopely, most recently as performance marketing VP, Shay Ze’ev Yosifon has joined Zynga as VP of marketing, GamingonPhone reports.
TikTok: The social media platform has promoted Maayan Kotler from head of APAC gaming to head of global gaming growth at TikTok for Business. Vincent Bernardin has moved from gaming brand partnership manager to head of gaming for France and Central Europe. Plus, former AppLovin head of advertiser relations Herwin Genz is now leading key accounts in TikTok’s mobile gaming partnerships division.
Twitch: Amazon has appointed Jason Parmar as senior ads GTM lead for Twitch Europe. He was formerly sales director at King and head of gaming at TikTok UK and Ireland.
Supercell: The Finnish mobile studio has promoted former Nintendo and Epic Games marketing boss Rob Lowe to head of marketing. Ex-global marketing strategy lead Gabriel C. has also been appointed as marketing lead for Clash Royale.
Epic Games: The Unreal Engine firm has hired Carson Taylor as senior product manager, Fortnite growth and creator monetisation. He joins from Samsung Electronics, where he served as product strategy manager, gaming and media services.
Aonic: The multiplatform gaming group has recruited former Larian studio head Arthur Mostovoy to its newly created head of games role.
Apple: Former Superkind CEO and Jam City SVP of game development Jill Wilson has joined the iPhone maker as director, consumer product for the App Store.
King: The Candy Crush maker has appointed Omar Khalaf as principal level designer. He was most recently senior level designer at Nørdlight Games.
AppLovin: The marketing giant has appointed Webb Investment Network founder Maynard Webb to its board of directors, as an independent director and member of the audit committee and nominating and corporate governance committee.
FunPlus: Former Splash Damage UX designer Matthew George has joined the Studio Ellipsis team in Lisbon as a UI designer, and Pol Coller Borja has joined the Barcelona team as a community manager intern.
Appmagic: Former Pawsome Games producer Victoria Beliaeva has joined the mobile app market intelligence service as head of PR and partnerships. She most recently served as head of business development and PR at AppQuantum.
Goodville: Following four years as the company’s chief marketing officer, Katerina Dudinskaya is being promoted to CEO. She’ll replace co-founder Alexey Meleshkevich, who will become CPO effective May 1.
Mistplay: The mobile game loyalty app has promoted Anthony Ortolan from global partnerships manager to senior manager, business development and partnerships.
Appcharge: Former Playtika and UNKJD product manager Noam Sachartov has been appointed to fill the same role at the DTC platform. Former Cytactic business relationships manager and GTM Itamar Nadel has also joined the company as an account manager.
Voodoo: Following a second spell at King, most recently as senior product director for Candy Crush, former Voodoo head of product Adriano Serroni has rejoined the company as general manager to build new match 3-focused studio Picante.
Rollic: The Zynga-owned studio has rehired marketing artist Oğuzhan Bülbül following a spell at Pine Games.
Raptor PR: The London-based PR firm has appointed Emma Weeks as account manager. She was previously a client manager at Milk & Honey PR.
Ludia: The Montreal-based studio has appointed Philippe Dufour as VP of finance. He joins the Jurassic World Alive maker from Gestion Providentia, where he served as financial director.
Yodo1 Games: Former Space Ape Games game designer Jesse Emetulu has taken on the same role at the Chinese publisher.
My.Games: The Amsterdam-based firm has promoted Dmitriy Byshonkov from senior business development manager to business development director.
Almedia: Wjatscheslaw Sperling has joined the advertising firm as senior graphic designer, Richard Emate as senior frontend engineer, Torsten Rokossa as general counsel, Tamara Weit as senior people partner, Dana Kim as gaming growth manager for Korea, David Donghoon Lee as country manager for Korea, and Joel Brodie as senior strategic partnerships lead.
