RECRUITMENT Ins and Outs: Industry hires and moves
CAT CHANNON is the new Vice President of Global Corporate Communications at Electronic Arts. Before moving to EA, Cat was working as Director of
International Integrated Communications at Warner Bros. Entertainment. She’s also well known for being a legend of UK games journalism, having worked at Future Publishing.
CHARLIE ANDRE- BARRETT, has become Head of Business Development at Curve Games, leaving Team 17. Charlie has worked in the
industry for over 20 years, including stints at both Ubisoft and Bethesda. He is also a member of BAFTA.
KRISTIAN VON FERSEN, has also become the new Franchise Director at Curve Games, having worked in the past at companies like Electronic Arts and Relic. He
intends to bring his experiences from all facets of game development to Curve, helping them to identify and publish even more exciting titles.
Also joining Curve games is LYNN DANIEL, who has taken on the task of being Director of Public Relations. She previously worked at huge companies like SEGA
and Atari, and intends to use her skillset to raise awareness for their roster of indie games and their ongoing success stories.
JON VLASSAOPULOS has joined the Dubit advisory board, after spending time as the VP and Global Head of Music at Roblox. He was part of the team behind
creating virtual experiences for the BRITs and the Grammys, and it seems like he intends to continue bringing music to the metaverse in his new role.
JON ROOKE is now the Vice President of Marketing at Thunderful. He used to work at 2K Games as Senior Director of International Marketing
and Communications. Rooke has 25 years of experience under his belt, having also worked at THQ, Microsoft and SEGA.
TARA NAZ has become a Producer at Electric Noir Studios. She’s been in the industry for two years, and was previously producing games for Macademia. Tara
was also one of the nominees for the Rising Star Award at the Women In Games Awards earlier this year.
REESE WRIGHT has recently joined Devolver Digital as a Senior Producer. Reese has a 16 year career under their belt. The list of previous companies that
Reese has worked at includes Robot Teddy, Square Enix and SEGA.
The latest HR Administrator at Sumo Group is JACKSON CRAMP. He’s passionate about building good relationships with people and education, and volunteers in
his local community. He sounds like a good fit with the staff at Sumo, and we’re sure he won’t cramp their style. … Sorry Jackson.
KAYLEIGH CARDWELL joins Sumo as a Marketing Graphic Designer, after over eight years designing for various marketing agencies, like the Trident Business
Group, Firth Architects and Blush Digital. Before that she spent eleven months working as a Social Media and Community Manager for Lucky6.
Sumo Sheffield has hired DANIEL CASTELLANOS as a Senior Producer, after having worked at Supermassive Games on The Dark Pictures Anthology: The
Devil in Me. Before that he was working at Build A Rocket Boy, Big Star Games, A Crowd of Monsters and Digital Legends Entertainment.
VÁCLAV MÜLLER has become a Build Engineer at Sumo Sheffield, having done three years at Madfinger Games in the same role. Before that he spent three
years at Micronic as a programmer, which wasn’t video games related at all.
Continuing our list of new hires at Sumo Sheffield is BJORN PRINS, who is joining the team as a Junior Environment Artist. This is Bjorn’s first job in the industry,
as he just graduated from the Breda University of Applied Sciences.
AARON SMITH joins Sumo Sheffield as a Senior Programmer, having previously worked on Forza Horizon 4 and 5 at Playground Games and their
downloadable content. Hopefully this means Sumo has another racing game in the works, but we won’t hold it against Aaron if not.
ANETTE VAVROVA is the latest Junior 3D Character Artist to join the team at Sumo Sheffield. She graduated from the Breda University of Applied
Sciences in 2021, but has been freelancing for a year. We haven’t asked her, but having done freelance work ourselves, we know that she is absolutely looking forward to not having to invoice anymore.
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