It may be troublesome maintaining monitor of the assorted comings and goings within the video games {industry}, which is why we compile them in semi-regular round-ups.
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Tim Holland | Chief monetary officer, Stillfront
Stillfront has appointed Tim Holland as its interim CFO following the resignation of Andreas Uddman in January 2025.
Uddman will proceed to function inside Stillfront as a senior advisor earlier than he departs from the agency this July.
Holland has been at Stillfront since 2019. He joined as CFO of North America, then turned deputy CFO of the MENA and APAC areas.
Previous to becoming a member of the Sweden-based group, Holland was CFO at Kixeye and Hothead Video games. He has almost 20 years of expertise throughout the finance world.
“We’re more than happy to announce Tim Holland’s appointment as our interim group CFO,” stated Stillfront president and CEO Alexis Bonte.
“Tim’s intensive expertise inside Stillfront, alongside his deep understanding of the gaming {industry} and our monetary operations gained from numerous monetary roles, ensures robust monetary management and continuity.
“That is essential as we proceed our strategic initiatives centered on enhancing profitability and shareholder worth.”
Holland added: “The journey to this point has been very rewarding, and I am extraordinarily happy with what we have completed collectively. I need to sincerely thank the unimaginable crew we have inbuilt North America. Your dedication and exhausting work have been key to our success, and I am assured the crew will proceed to thrive and obtain much more sooner or later.
“As I transfer ahead into this subsequent chapter, I am excited to proceed working alongside my superb colleagues in Sweden and around the globe.”
Shlomi Aizenberg | Chief enterprise officer, Scopely
Scopely has appointed Shlomi Aizenberg as its chief enterprise officer.
Aizenberg will concentrate on Scopely’s M&A technique, working alongside Scopely’s chief income officer Tim O’Brien and the agency’s company growth group led by Rob Ricca.
His function will embody evaluating new enterprise operations along with potential funding and acquisition alternatives.
Previous to becoming a member of Scopely, Aizenberg was CCO at Playtika. He joined the cellular developer and writer in 2012 as VP of promoting. He turned SVP of rewards and partnerships in 2014, then GM of Bingo Blitz in 2015.
“Our method to M&A is differentiated, dynamic and artistic – tailoring our technique to the distinctive strengths of every alternative,” stated Scopely co-CEOs Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira.
“This technique requires leaders who each deeply perceive enterprise operations, gaming groups, and founders and have vital relationships throughout the video games {industry}, which Shlomi has demonstrated time and time once more by way of his lengthy tenure at Playtika.”
They added: “We’re assured that Shlomi will considerably contribute to Scopely’s mission to encourage play each day and sit up for having his perspective as a part of Scopely.”
Mike DeLaet | President, Ares Interactive
Ares Interactive has appointed Mike DeLaet as president.
Previous to this function, DeLaet was international head of digital gaming at Mattel – a place he held for simply over two years. He was additionally SVP of strategic partnership at Scopely for 2 years, becoming a member of in 2020.
DeLaet started his profession at Dash in 2007 as head of video games. He transitioned to Glu Cell in 2009 as SVP of worldwide publishing for almost 4 years.
In 2013, DeLaet was appointed SVP of worldwide enterprise growth and licensing at Kabam, overseeing video games together with Marvel Contest of Champions and Transformers: Solid to Battle.
DeLaet based writer Rogue Video games in 2017, and was CEO and chairman till June 2020.
Rob Schonfeld | Chief enterprise officer, Ludeo
Gaming platform Ludeo has appointed Rob Schonfeld as its chief enterprise officer.
“The chance to assist scale [Ludeo’s] know-how and construct one thing completely new represents essentially the most thrilling alternative in my profession,” stated Schonfeld.
He was beforehand international income officer at Activision Blizzard. Schonfeld joined the agency in 2012 as vice chairman, head of worldwide digital and cellular gross sales. He then turned senior vice chairman of worldwide digital and cellular commerce.
In 2019, Schonfeld was appointed senior vice chairman of income earlier than becoming a member of the board of administrators in 2022 and changing into international income officer.
Chris Lamb | Senior recreation designer, Keep Altitude
Chris Lamb has joined Keep Altitude as senior recreation designer.
Lamb started his profession in video games in 2005 as a contract tester for Skyworks Interactive. He is labored for builders together with Crowdstar, The Playforge, and Playfirst earlier than changing into lead recreation designer at SGN Video games in 2014 earlier than changing into studio design director.
In 2018, Lamb moved to King as principal recreation designer. He left in 2019 to turn into recreation design supervisor at Outplay Leisure, earlier than returning to King in 2021 to proceed his earlier place.
Lamb was director of degree design craft at Rovio in 2023, earlier than shifting to Moon Energetic in 2024 as principal degree designer.
Cinzia Musio | Non-executive director and fairness, variety & inclusion marketing consultant, Code Coven
Code Coven’s Cinzia Musio has stepped down from her function as co-CEO to turn into non-executive director and fairness, variety, and inclusion marketing consultant.
Musio turned co-CEO at Code Coven in July 2023. She joined the agency in June 2022 as variety, fairness, and inclusion marketing consultant earlier than changing into interim CEO in January 2023.
Previous to becoming a member of Code Coven, Musio labored at Splash Injury for almost 5 years. She began in 2017 as affiliate tech ops supervisor, earlier than changing into operations venture supervisor in 2019. They then turned variety and inclusion advisor in 2020.
After leaving Splash Injury in 2022, Musio provided her experience in fairness, variety, and inclusion as a contract marketing consultant.
“Cinzia joined Code Coven in a pivotal second, co-leading our organisation by way of a interval of main transformation, operational resilience, and international influence,” the corporate stated.
“Their management has been instrumental in elevating our mission, deepening our dedication to fairness, and strengthening how we serve marginalised expertise throughout the {industry}.”
Jeonghee Jin | Chief working officer, NCSoft West
NCSoft West has appointed Jeonghee Jin as chief working officer. She is going to proceed her function as CEO of NC America alongside this new place.
Previous to becoming a member of NC America, Jin was CEO of Pearl Abyss America for six years. She began on the developer and writer in 2018 as senior vice chairman of company growth and international partnerships.
Jin started her profession within the video games {industry} in 2009 at Trion Worlds as enterprise growth supervisor. She later turned senior director of enterprise growth.
“I began as the COO of NC West final month, whereas persevering with to serve as the CEO of NC America,” Jin stated.
“NC West is a holding firm of Arenanet and this alteration implies that I am now working carefully with Areanet’s management crew Colin Johanson Malcolm Dunne (CFO) and the Guild Wars franchise and the studio’s development plan.”
“Huxter performs a crucial strategic function throughout Raptor PR’s key video games {industry}, leisure, and tech accounts, creating industry-defining, multi-channel communications marketing campaign,” the corporate stated.
David Burroughs | World model advertising supervisor, Plaion
David Burroughs has joined Plaion as its international model advertising supervisor.
Previous to this transfer, Burroughs was senior advertising supervisor at nDreams. He began on the Farnborough-based VR agency in 2023 as senior model supervisor. He was additionally senior model supervisor at Artistic Meeting and Ubisoft Leamington.
Burroughs joined Ubisoft in 2013 as junior PR govt. He left the corporate in 2021 as senior model supervisor.
“As I step into this new function, I hope I can help and elevate the superb work of Plaion’s groups,” Burroughs stated. “There’s a lot ardour and creativity behind their video games, and I am trying ahead to serving to deliver these tales and experiences to gamers around the globe.”
Thomas Huxter | Director, Raptor PR
Raptor PR has appointed Thomas Huxter as director.
Huxter joined the PR company in 2020 as its first rent within the function of senior public relations marketing consultant. He joined completely as head of content material in 2021.
Previous to becoming a member of Raptor PR, he was senior accounts supervisor at Sepia Communications and Dimoso.
Stillfront promotes Kieran O’Leary and Jochen Gary
Stillfront has promoted two of its govt staff – Kieran O’Leary and Jochen Gary.
O’Leary has been promoted to EVP development after becoming a member of the corporate in January 2025 as EVP development platform. Previous to Stillfront, O’Leary was SVP of reside video games and chief income officer at Gameloft.
He began at Gameloft in 2014 as product managers lead in North America, shifting to international merchandise managers lead, international product advertising lead, then product advertising lead earlier than leaving in April 2019 to hitch Outfit7 as senior director for advertising.
O’Leary labored at Rovio for 3 years, starting as director of development in video games then VP of promoting and CCO. He additionally labored at Forecomm in enterprise growth for the US, IBM, and at Ubisoft as worldwide product supervisor for Watch Canine.
Gary has been promoted from VP of promoting to chief advertising officer, and can report back to O’Leary immediately.
His prior function was at Goodgame Studios as vice chairman of promoting. Gary joined in 2015 as lead advertising controlling, then was promoted to vice chairman of promoting.
Brandon Suzuki | Lead narrative designer, Squid Video games
Brandon Suzuki has been promoted to steer narrative designer at Squid Video games.
Suzuki joined the cellular studio in 2022 as a contract narrative designer. He turned a full-time junior narrative designer the identical yr, shifting up the ranks to his present place.
“The final three years at Squid have been crammed with an amazing quantity of studying and development, and I am unable to thank Jackie Jin and Laura Verman sufficient for his or her steerage and mentorship by way of the start of my profession,” Suzuki stated.
“There’s all the time one other mountain to climb, and I am excited to see what management has in retailer for me.”
Imogen Calypso Mellor | Social lead, Yrs Really
Imogen Calypso Mellor has been promoted to social lead at gaming advertising company Yrs Really.
Mellor joined Yrs Really in 2023 as marketing campaign supervisor. Previous to this function, she labored in journalism beginning as a employees author for PCGamesN, then shifting to Ladbible. She was a options producer at PC Gamer, and viewers director at The Telegraph.
She additionally works as a presenter, having hosted GDC in 2021 and has labored with manufacturers together with E4, High Gear, and video games such as Disco Elysium.
Andrew Hoffacker | VP head of recreation manufacturing, Annapurna Interactive
Annapurna Interactive has appointed Andrew Hoffacker as VP head of recreation manufacturing.
Hoffacker was beforehand manufacturing director of exterior video games at Netflix. He labored at Riot Video games for almost 5 years, becoming a member of in 2019 as senior producer, changing into director of Riot Forge in 2012.
He additionally labored at Activision for 12 years in producer roles on Name of Responsibility, and was a manufacturing coordinator at Infinity Ward for Name of Responsibility 4: Fashionable Warfare.
Eva Ryott | Head of reside operations, King
King has promoted Eva Roytt as head of reside operations.
Ryott started her profession at King in 2013 as a knowledge scientist. She was then appointed enterprise efficiency supervisor, crew lead for analytics, enterprise efficiency director, and as a senior producer. She left in 2019 to hitch Meta as a knowledge science supervisor, a place she held for almost three years.
In 2022, Ryott rejoined King as senior director, content material space lead. She then turned VP head of core gameplay for Sweet Crush Saga previous to her newest place.
“On this function, I will likely be liable for advancing our tooling and applied sciences to help higher and sooner selections in our video games – creating cohesive and related experiences for our gamers,” she stated.
“With this, I’m additionally transitioning from the Sweet Crush recreation crew into our shared tech organisation, serving a number of video games throughout King.”
Jody Zarkos | Individuals and expertise lead, Lockwood Publishing
Lockwood Publishing has promoted Jody Zarkos to folks and expertise lead.
Zarkos joined the corporate in 2024 as senior expertise associate. Previous to this, she was head of HR at Omeda Studios – a place she held for 2 years. She additionally labored at Jagex for 4 years, beginning in 2017 as expertise acquisition specialist, then human useful resource specialist and affiliate HR enterprise partnering.
Ben Board | Head of Unreal Engine video games enterprise – Western Europe, Epic Video games
Epic Video games has promoted Ben Board as head of Unreal Engine video games enterprise – Western Europe.
Board joined Epic in 2017 as developer help supervisor. He moved as much as enterprise growth supervisor then director, earlier than changing into head of Unreal Engine video games enterprise for Western Europe.
He joined the {industry} in 1997 at Bullfrog Productions as a programmer, earlier than co-founding Dogfish Leisure in 2000 the place he was additionally lead programmer.
Board moved to Lionhead Studios in 2022 as lead programmer (scripting), then went on to Staff Bondi in May 2005 as lead gameplay programmer on LA Noire. He additionally labored at Microsoft as European developer account supervisor between 2008 and 2013.
Jayce Diaz | Principal encounter designer, Gunfire Video games
Jayce Diaz has joined Gunfire Video games as principal encounter designer.
Diaz began his profession in 2005 as a shift chief for Sport Loopy, and in addition co-founded impartial gaming information web site Glitchy Tasty.
He joined Microsoft in 2011 as a designer, and labored on the marketing campaign design crew on Halo 4 and Halo 5, and was a Spartan Ops designer on Halo 4.
Diaz moved to Bungie in 2015 as a designer, then labored as a senior gameplay designer at 343 Industries in 2019. In 2021, he joined ZeniMax On-line Studios as senior degree designer, then principal degree designer in 2022.
Ben Gunstone | CEO, Stainless Video games
Stainless Video games has appointed Ben Gunstone as CEO, whereas founder Patrick Buckland has turn into govt chairman.
Gunstone joined the developer in 2006 as manufacturing director, a job he held for almost 13 years. He moved to GlobalStep in 2019 as UK basic supervisor after which director of enterprise growth.
He then turned govt producer of the Fishing franchise at Dovetail Video games in 2021 earlier than shifting again to Stainless Video games in 2022 as recreation director. He was promoted to operations director earlier than changing into CEO.
Gunstone has been within the {industry} since 1992, working as a hotliner for Nintendo. He then labored in QA and manufacturing at SCI Video games for ten years, and was senior producer for exterior manufacturing at Sega for 3 years.
“Ben has been an enormous a part of our journey during the last 20 years,” stated Stainless Video games. “Now he is main the cost as we proceed to create superior video games for our purchasers, construct up our initiatives, and crew up with much more AAA and AA studios as a trusted co-development associate.”
Tim Coupe and Clive Moody be a part of Metal Metropolis Interactive
Metal Metropolis Interactive has introduced the appointment of Tim Coupe as VP of studio and Clive Moody as VP of product growth.
Coupe’s prior function was at Digital Arts as head of studio operations for EA Sports activities UK. He joined the developer in 2021 as director of product growth, after which turned head of operations.
Coupe began within the {industry} as a programmer, earlier than changing into VP of cellular and handheld at Warthog Video games in 1999, then moved to EA as growth director in 2003.
He was studio growth supervisor at Eurocom for over seven years, earlier than changing into govt producer at Jagex in 2012. Coupe joined Codemasters in 2015 as senior growth director, earlier than leaving in 2018 to work at Palringo and Curve Growth.
Coupe returned to Codemasters in 2020 as govt producer, changing into director of product growth then head of operations.
“My years at EA Sports activities and Codemasters have helped form my expertise of sports activities franchises,” stated Coupe. “Sharing [Steel City Interactive CEO] Ash Habib’s imaginative and prescient for Metal Metropolis Interactive and Undisputed, I imagine we are going to create the definitive boxing online game franchise.”
Moody additionally labored at Codemasters for over 20 years. He left in 2024 as SVP of product growth, and has been concerned within the growth and supply of a number of franchises.
“What Ash and the crew have created is unimaginable,” Moody added. “The ambition going past what’s been achieved to this point is genuinely thrilling, and too good a chance to not be a part of serving to to form and ship.”
Christine Brownell | Senior design director – Video games, Lego Digital Play
Christine Brownell has joined Lego Digital Play as senior design director after working at Sumo Digital as director of reside ops.
Brownell joined the {industry} in 2003, working at Blizzard Leisure as a QA software program analyst then quest designer. She moved to NetDevil in 2005 as content material designer and lead content material designer, then lead world designer at Perpetual Leisure in 2006.
Brownell labored at EA as senior recreation designer at Maxis in 2008, earlier than changing into artistic director of Playfish in 2011. She was additionally artistic director at Scopely for almost three years, becoming a member of in 2019.
Earlier than becoming a member of Sumo Digital in 2024, Brownell was franchise design director at Media Molecule and recreation director at PlayStation London Studio.
“As somebody who’s all the time believed within the energy of play, and who grew up constructing, storytelling, and imagining issues with Lego, this function feels deeply significant,” Brownell stated.
“I am additionally feeling fortunate and grateful for the possibility to hitch a crew led by Aaron Loeb, somebody I’ve had the pleasure of working with earlier than and have large respect for.”
Matthew Pellett and Holly Cooper appointed new roles at Secret Mode
Secret Mode has appointed Matthew Pellett as platform engagement director and Holly Cooper as head of communications.
Pellett joined Secret Mode in 2022 as PR and communications supervisor, then PR and communications director in 2024.
He made his begin within the {industry} in 2007 as a employees author at Xbox World 360 journal. He was additionally editor at GamesMaster Journal and the Official PlayStation Journal.
Pellett labored at Useless Good Media for almost 4 years, beginning as media and influencer marketing consultant, then PR account supervisor and senior PR account supervisor.
“After 18 years spent within the media, media relations, and advertising realm, I am mixing issues up,” stated Pellett.
“I am delighted to step right into a platform engagement director place at Secret Mode, the place I will be centered on our retailer pages, first-party platform visibility, digital occasion and competition participation, and way more in addition to.”
Cooper joined Secret Mode in 2024 as product advertising supervisor. In January this yr, she was promoted to senior product advertising supervisor earlier than changing into head of communications.
Previous to Secret Mode, she labored at Frontier Developments as product advertising supervisor. She additionally labored at Team17 for nearly 4 years, beginning as junior PR and occasions supervisor in 2017, earlier than climbing the ladder to PR and occasions supervisor then junior model supervisor.
Cooper additionally held positions of subject govt and PR govt at Ubisoft.
“I have been given an incredible alternative to leap again into comms as head of communications at Secret Mode,” stated Cooper. “I began my {industry} profession in PR and occasions, and I am excited to leap again in.
“Enormous because of Matthew Pellett for trusting me with this unimaginable crew and to the senior management at Secret Mode for the chance to take this subsequent step in my profession.”
Ben Parfitt | UX author, Sony Interactive Leisure
Ben Parfitt has joined Sony Interactive Leisure as a UX author.
Parfitt has been within the gaming {industry} since 2005, beginning as affiliate editor at MCV/Develop. He was additionally a contract author, contributing to The Guardian, Kotaku, and GamesIndustry.biz.
In 2018, Parfitt joined Jagex as affiliate editorial director – a place he held for simply over 4 years. He then turned senior net editor at Artistic Meeting in 2022, leaving the place in January 2024.
Partfitt returned to freelancing earlier than his newest place at Sony.