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JONATHAN LINSLEY is another new arrival at British Esports, joining as its graphic designer. He used to work on brand and communications projects for Grid Smarter Cities.
AARON MORLEY has joined Sumo Leamington. Before joining the team, they ran an indie mobile games company. In total they have about 10 years of F2P experience, which they are pleased to bring with them to Sumo.
DES GAYLE is now at Radical Forge, and is joining the team as a studio executive producer. He’s the deputy chair of BAFTA Games, and was a co-founder of POC In Play. He’s also worked with studios like Altered Gene, EA, Exient, Microsoft, Square Enix and Fellow Traveller.
DAN AHERN has also joined Radical Forge as lead QA. He was most recently at Mediatonic Games as a QA analyst, and is the mind behind the EGX Full-Ride Fund. He’s also a Lv. 60 Samurai in Final Fantasy XIV.
GREGAN DUNN is now director of operations developer from the PopReach Corporation, where he was vice president of game studios.
ED BLINCOE is taking on the job of vice president of publishing at Secret Mode. Blincoe is the former studio director of Lab42. He’ll work closely with the former director of publishing, James Schall, who has had his role expanded to focus on strategy.
DAVE EVANS is now the lead QA manager at Auroch Digital. They started out in the industry about ten years ago, working in QA on CSR Racing with NaturalMotion. They’ve also worked at companies like Playdeo, Fusebox and Netspeak.
MATTHEW MORRIS at Code Wizards. He has a reputation for building teams that can solve complex business challenges.
BEN SZOKE has joined Sump as its latest group after eight years of working in corporate
PEDRO MAMELUQUE is now a lighting artist at a Finnish VR company called ZOAN, before working on Call of the Sea and American Arcadia at Out of the Blue Games.
TERRY GOODWIN is the latest studio director at Lab42 Games. They’ve been promoted after eight years on the Lab42 team, where they were most recently a technical director.
ROB OBRECZAREK is also at Code Wizards as the head of new projects. He has worked in a range of roles across the entertainment industry, including time at Devskiller, Netguru and the Universal Music Publishing Group.
MAYUMI O’SHEA has left Marvelous Europe, and is headed up north to Merge Games in Chelford. She’s an experienced producer that has also worked with well-known companies like PQube, Square Enix and IGN.
Finally, BEN ATKINS CHAFER has left By Gamers, For Gamers, where he worked as a product specialist for WePC, and a commercial copywriter for AgencyGMR. He’s headed to Yarnham for a bit of a break before he starts on his next challenge.
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