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Zillah Byng-Maddick joins media giant Industry legend Livingstone leaves Square Enix after 20 years Minecraft developer Mojang hires new vice president
FUTURE | The media group has announced ZILLAH BYNG-MADDICK as its new chief financial officer. She will take up the new role on November 1st, replacing GRAHAM HARDING who spent 13 years with the firm. Byng-Maddick is currently a non-executive director of Betfair and joins from Trader Media Group, where she
served as executive director. Future CEO MARK WOOD said: “Zillah has an outstanding reputation and her experience of leading a successful and rapid transition from print to digital at Trader Media Group is of enormous value to us at this time. “She will help transform Future, accelerating the pace of change, which is key to us building a more profitable digital business. “We are indebted to Graham for his tremendous contribution to Future’s development over many years. We wish him every success with his future plans.”
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SQUARE ENIX | Industry icon IAN LIVINGSTONE has departed Square Enix and Eidos having spent 20 years with the publisher.
He oversaw the creation of Eidos in 1995 serving as executive chairman, and was later named life president at the company after it was acquired by Square Enix. During his time at the publisher, Livingstone helped launch a number of the industry’s most recognisable franchises, including Tomb Raider, Thief, Deus Exand Legacy of Kain.
He will step away from the firm to focus on other projects outside of publishing, such as establishing the Livingstone Foundation, which focuses on coding using games as a learning tool in schools and academies. “All of us at Square Enix want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Ian for his unparalleled tenure and contribution to this business and the UK games industry,” read a company statement.
“We wish him every success with his future projects and new ventures.” ................................................................................................................................................................
MOJANG | The Minecraftdeveloper has announced the appointment of JONAS MÅRTENSSON as new VP. He joins from onling gambling company Betsson, where he was head of mobile.
The move is the latest by studio founded by Minecraftcreator MARKUS PERSSON, which recently
launched its second game, Scrolls, and has been busily expanding its team to suit.
A post from Mojang CEO CARL MANNEH read: “A few months back I had a casual conversation in the office kitchen talking about the insane amount of things going on at Mojang.”
“I said something along the lines of ‘I wish I could clone myself’ and I remember Tobias mumbling something like ‘I’ll look into that’.” “Yesterday Tobias came back to me and said he had something to show me. Introducing Mojang’s new Vice President: Jonas Mårtensson.”
14 October 11th 2013
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