Archive for the ‘People’ Category

SonicBoom Hires Lou Fasulo and Josh Grant

February 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Sonic Boom announced the appointments of Josh Grant as the Chief Operating Officer and Lou Fasulo as the Senior Vice President of Publishing. Through these appointments and recent move to an expanded office space, David Danon, CEO of Sonic Boom, is committed to investing in the company’s growth.

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Paramount Games Hires John Kavanagh

February 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Last year, Paramount's Sandi Isaacs left her post of SVP of videogames. Now, a few months later, she is being replaced by John Kavanagh (a former Kuju America, Atari and Eidos executive).

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GetJar Hires Patrick Mork, Opens new Office

January 21st, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

We aren't sure if this is big news for Patrick Mork (ex Glu), but it surely is for GetJar. The mobile games veteran has signed up as one of the new executives which will be leading the fast growing portal.

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Ernie Cornier, the new CEO of ZeeMote

January 18th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Following several successful distribution deals, the ZeeMote company has now successfully hired a new CEO in the person of Ernie Cornier, a former Virgin Media Chief Commercial Officer.

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PlayPhone Appoints Kate Berry for EMEA

January 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

In an effort to increase it's footprint in the EMEA market, U.S. based mobile content distribution firm PlayPhone has appointed their business developer Kate Berry as it's new general manager EMEA.

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Former Vivendi Employees Launches Job Board

January 13th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

With loads of people hitting the streets these days, former employees of Vivendi have decided to put a new job boards on-line to help themselves and colleagues to get a new job in the (mobile) games industry.

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Javier Ferreira Leaves EA Mobile

January 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

EA Mobile's VP of European Publishing, Javier Ferreira, has left the company. With his move he follows Tim Harrison (former EU marketing manager) who left earlier in 2008.

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Mobile SVP’s from Universal and Paramount Leave

December 19th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Earlier this year, Paramount announced to start creating mobile games themselves and also Universal has set steps to monetize their brands in a better way. Now, both SVP's responsible are leaving their companies.

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She’s One to Watch; Jill Braff

December 15th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Digital Media Wire has announced that Glu's Jill Braff, SVP Global Publishing, has managed to get into their top 25 Digital Entertainment Executives to Watch 2008. Jill managed to hit the fourth possition.

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Kamar Shah Leaves Nokia

December 8th, 2008 by Arjan Olsder Posted in People | No Comments »

Whoever went to a Nokia event or party, was likely to run into Kamar Shah. Without doubt, he was one of the thriving forces behind Nokia's multimedia and mobile games marketing.