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Supercell: The Clash maker’s new Seattle-based North America studio has hired Amy Ackermann as engineer. She moves over from Stray Bombay, where she was principal software engineer, and has previously worked in engineering roles at Blind Squirrel, Riot and Amazon.
Tripledot Studios: Scopely’s lead match 3 designer Sergey Evchenko has moved to become level design director at Tripledot. Evchenko has previously worked in game design roles for Socialpoint, Playrix, G5 and others.
Socialpoint: Danika Wilkinson has been promoted to director of UA. Wilkinson steps up having joined Socialpoint as product marketing manager in 2019, and has since served as head of marketing for new games at Take Two-owned studios Playdots and Socialpoint. She has also previously worked as UA manager at Genera Games.
Playtika: Ziv Levavi is now VP of VIP, customer support, community and social at Playtika. Levavi steps up from his role working on Bingo Blitz VIPs at Playtika.
Rewardify: Veteran games exec and Doodle Jump creator Matt Turetzky has joined the play-to-earn casual gaming firm as president. Besides his work at Lima Sky on Doodle Jump, Turetzky has also worked in senior roles at Mattel, Disney, GSN Games and RealNetworks/Gamehouse.
Voodoo: The hypercasual firm has promoted Alexander Shea to become its new head of strategic partnerships. Shea moves up from his prior role as head of publishing.
Ten Square Games: The Fishing Clash maker has promoted Ionut-Gabriel Solomon to product owner, moving up from lead games designer. He has also previously worked at Ubisoft in testing and level design roles.
Miniclip: Govind Cacciatore has been promoted to the role of business development manager. He steps up from his prior role as bizdev associate.
Popcore: Burak Aydemir has moved from Udo Games to Popcore as game developer. Aydemir has also worked at Dalek Games.
King: Patryk Kowalski is now C++ software developer at King’s Barcelona studio, and joins having worked previously at Nokia, Arringo, Ascent and iSoftBet.
