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Homa swoops for 2 senior recruits
There are two appointments at Homa, with new staff member Dean Grandquist taking at the VP of generation function. Grandquist has in the past led cellular groups and strategic initiatives at Snow fall Leisure, Scopely, and Digital Arts.
“I am excited to sign up for Homa, particularly drawn through the potential for Homa Lab to revolutionise and lift sport advent via knowledge and gaming insights,” stated Grandquist.
“I am taking a look ahead to running along this gifted and bold staff to proceed construction the following era of Homa’s video games.”
Homa’s 2nd activity rent is video games business veteran Szymon Sirocki, who’s taking at the function of lead cellular architect.
Sirocki brings a decade of enjoy within the video games business, in the past keeping the location of CTO at BoomBit, technical lead at Playtika and cohesion staff lead at Moon Energetic.
“I am extremely joyful to sign up for Homa and paintings with the sort of gifted staff,” stated Sirocki.
“Homa’s tech stack holds immense attainable. I sit up for contributing to the improvement of state-of-the-art equipment and applied sciences to create the following era of cellular video games”.
New hires at Yodo 1 Video games, Gram Video games, Wooga and Moloco
Milos Scepanovic has been promoted from international recruitment result in head of expansion at Yodo1 Video games. Scepanovic joined the corporate in 2023 after keeping positions as a senior recruiter at Kolibri Video games and as a ability acquisition lead at Megarama Video games.
Sukrit Choudhry has began a brand new place as sport design director at Gram Video games. Choudhry comes from earlier enjoy as affiliate director of design at Zynga and has over 12 years of sport design enjoy.
Love & Pies writer Trailmix Video games has welcomed Ivan Babkin to the staff as a product analyst. Babkin used to be in the past a junior knowledge analyst at Bumble.
Martian Rusev has joined Wooga as an affiliate publishing director. All the way through his five-year keep at Gameloft, Rusev in the past held positions akin to product advertising and marketing supervisor and studio advertising and marketing director.
Christy Wong-Taylor begins a brand new place as head of gaming at Moloco, leaving her place as VP of expansion at The Sandbox, the place she in the past held the top of person acquisition place when she joined in 2022.
Senior appointments at Golden Whale and Voodoo
Video games infrastructure corporate Golden Whale has appointed Thomas Aigner as its new SVP of industrial construction. With virtually twenty years of enjoy in video games, e-commerce, AI, and gadget studying, Aigner joins the staff to fortify its marketplace presence.
“I’m extremely proud to sign up for Golden Whale,” stated Aigner.
“It’s for sure some of the leading edge and forward-thinking firms in all the gaming and information science house, in no small phase because of its extraordinarily skilled founding staff. In my new function, I’m dedicated to creating a expansion technique that can create new alternatives and make sure long-term luck.”
Felipe Mata joins Voodoo as its common supervisor. He brings in depth enjoy within the cellular video games business, which he has bought right through his occupation on the likes of King and FunPlus.
Mata commented at the new function on his LinkedIn: “I’m extremely joyful to announce that I’ve joined Voodoo as the overall supervisor to guide some of the formidable initiatives within the corporate’s historical past!
“We’re aiming to reshape no longer simply Voodoo however all the gaming business through growing the following large match-3 sport that can compete head-to-head with giants like Sweet Weigh down and Royal Fit for the top-grossing crown.”
