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Scopely: The Monopoly Go maker has hired Mathieu Pasteran as VP of marketing following spells at Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Eidos and Ubisoft. Pasteran was most recently head of publishing North America, PC and consoles at NetEase.
NetEase: The Chinese firm has promoted Ken Li from VP of corporate development to president for global investments and partnerships. He replaces Simon Zhu, who has left the company, Bloomberg reports.
Riot Games: The League of Legends and Valorant maker has hired Hoby Darling as president. Most recently, he was a member of the Logitech global executive leadership team, and he’s previously held senior leadership positions at Nike, Skullcandy/Astro Gaming and Volcom.
Discord: The social platform has appointed Humam Sakhnini as its new CEO. He previously spent almost eight years at Activision Blizzard over two spells, one as chief talent and strategy officer and the other as vice chairman, and also served as King’s CFO and president during six years at the company.
Epic Games: Following seven years at Amazon Web Services, most recently as a senior games account executive, Matt Plut has joined the Fortnite maker as a business development manager.
Unity: The game engine maker has hired Alex Giaimo as its new head of investor relations. He most recently spent four years at Epic Games, where he led investor relations and corporate strategy.
Tripledot Studios: The Woodoku maker has hired Owen Evans as interim talent acquisition partner. He was previously senior talent partner at SThree and a project manager at Energy Aspects.
Mag Interactive: There are four new appointments at the Swedish casual games firm. Game designer Alex Bräysy previously held similar roles at Nørdlight Games, Gro Play and King. And product manager Lucy Hill has rejoined MAG following three and half years as a senior analyst at Playmint. Engineering consultant Hedvig Reuterswärd has come on board from Ringtail Interactive, where she was most recently a senior software engineer. Senior accountant Elin Bäckstedt has joined the finance team following three years at Sileon Tech.
Tactile Games: There are three new hires at the Lily’s Garden maker. Marketing specialist Doğa Karahan has joined from Beko Global, recruiter Martin Gejlsbjerg has come on board from Advenio People, and former Bento game developer Atahan Yılmaz has taken on the role of gameplay programmer.
Nordeus: There are 10 new appointments at the Top Eleven and Golf Rival maker. It has hired Jelena Ivanovic as a junior animation designer, Darija Nesic and Una Mladenovic as UX trainees, Milica Lazic and Rosko Klikovac as a product management trainees, Lazar Cvetkovic as a full stack trainee, Uros Zecevic as a senior software engineer, Milica Kojic as a junior player support specialist, and Kaja Prtenjača and Andela Stojcevic as employer brand trainees.
Reach Labs: The publishing platform has appointed co-founder Jeremy Horn to the position of COO. He was previously VP head of innovation at FunPlus, VP business and strategy at Jam City, and most recently co-founder and COO of Xterio.
Google: The search engine giant has promoted Tom Grinsted from group product manager to product manager director.
UserWise: Co-founder David Molnar has taken on the CEO role at the live ops platform. Before starting the company, he worked as head of live ops at Mistplay and a senior live ops manager at Square Enix.
Appcharge: Former Moovit head of channel sales Rita Lepp has joined Appcharge as VP of business development, international. Naama Weisal has also joined the DTC platform from DealHub.io as its director of customer onboarding.
FunPlus: The State of Survival maker has hired Luis Mesquita as a senior environment artist at its Studio Ellipsis team in Lisbon. He was previously a 3D artist at Torn Banner Studios, Design:lab, Lever Games and Traumhaus Studios.
Alinea Analytics: The gaming data platform has appointed Rhys Elliott as head of market analysis. He was previously a lead games analyst at MIDiA Research and a games market analyst at Newzoo.
Dots.eco: The environmental rewards platform has appointed Anima Interactive head of marketing Raphaël Benros as partnerships, gaming for good.
