Archive for the ‘People’ Category

Barry O’Neill Leaves Namco Mobile

March 31st, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

He had great ambitions for Namco’s mobile department in Europe, but after Namco outsourced the mobile business for Europe to EA, Barry O’Neill has now left to pursuit his dreams with his own venture.

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GDC: Freeverse CFO Jumps to Appular

March 10th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Not long after the acquisition by ngmoco, Freeverse CFO Dino Decespedes has announced that he is leaving the developer to join a new app publisher called Appular as the director of publishing.

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Glu Appoints Olivier Bernard as new GM EMEA

February 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Olivier Bernard has received a great promotion at Glu as the former sales director has now been appointed as the new general manager for the company’s EMEA business.

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Massimo Caporale Leaves GlobalFun

February 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 7 Comments »

Following the departure of Bertil Krumnack, another key person in GlobalFun will be leaving. Massimo Corporale announced to depart the company by the end of this month.

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Bertil Krumnack Leaves GlobalFun for Twistbox

February 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | 3 Comments »

For years, Bertil was one of the faces behind GlobalFun, a company partly owned by Bertil himself. Just over a month ago, Bertil announced to be leaving GlobalFun and now he pops-up at competitor Twistbox.

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MD Universomo (THQW) Steps Down

January 27th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Markku Hakala, MD of THQ Wireless owned studio Universomo, has stepped down. Markku managed the studio for two years and nine months according to his page on LinkedIn.

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Greystripe Hires new VP of Sales

January 18th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Greystripe has announced a new hire. Kevin Granath has been appointed as the new Vice President of Sales. He will be responsible for growing the sales teams as well as developing the ad sales strategy.

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Oberon Media Hires new CFO

January 12th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Oberon Media has appointed Pat Barry as their new CFO. Pat Barry is bringing in 15 years of CFO experience coming from companies like Warner Music Enterprises, Audible Inc. and Bluefly Inc.

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Glu Announces new CEO

January 5th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

Following the appointment of William J Miller as interim president and CEO just over a month ago, Glu has now announced who will be leading the company over the years to come; Niccolo de Masi.

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Key Fox Mobile Management Leaves

December 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Companies & M&A, People | No Comments »

This morning we received an e-mail detailing that an important part of the Fox Mobile management has left the company. Amongst those leaving are the CEO and COO.