RECRUITMENT Ins and Outs: Industry hires and moves 1 3
5 Over at in-game advertising technology company Bidstack, they’ve promoted CHRIS VINCELLI as the vice president of enterprise partnerships. Vincelli has around a decade of experience in the mobile advert industry under his belt. He has a proven track record of implementing successful strategies and driving revenue growth. Now that he’s at Bidstack, he will work with its industry partners like Miniclip, Take-Two and Sports Interactive and will set his sights on achieving
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1 KALEY HURST has been promoted to vice president of sales and marketing at PTW, where she will be overseeing key areas of commercial growth for the company. She has been at PTW for the last eight years, and will now be responsible for all of for their various lines of business, and will report directly to Deborah Kirkham, CEO of PTW.
2 JESSICA WELLS has been promoted from editor of The Loadout to group editor of Network N Media overall. She'll be looking after PCGamesN and Custom PC Wells was one of the MCV/DEVELOP 30 Under 30 in 2022, where we called her ‘one of the standout young editors within the industry’, so y’know, she’s a good get.
3 Joining Wells at Network N Media is LOUISE CAREY, who
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will be the group editor of brands The Loadout, Pocket Tactics, The Digital Fix, Wargamer and Gear Nuke. Carey previously worked as the editor of Top Ten Reviews at Future plc, so this new role should present her with plenty of unique challenges and opportunities as she experiences all of its expanded scope and variety.
4 MARK WARD has been promoted over at Hasbro, and is now its director of communications for the EMEA, of the world. He’ll continue to represent the Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering franchises for Wizards of the Coast, but will now also be responsible for communications across all the Hasbro toys and video game franchises, which includes megahits like The Transformers, G.I. Joe and Power Rangers.
6 LUKE WINTFLINT has returned to the north east, and will join Nosebleed Interactive as its lead game designer just in time for his ninth anniversary in the his career working at Metaphoric Games and Coatsink Software in the bug report trenches as a QA
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Tester on indie titles, and worked his way up the ladder from there.
7 LIAM WICKHAM is now at nDreams where he’s working as Wickham comes to the studio following a stint at Lockwood Publishing where he was vice president of production and Lockwood, he was one of the people at PlayStation that worked on the PlayStation Home project. .
8 TOM GILLO has also been at nDreams. He has been with nDreams for eight years and was previously the company's his time at nDreams, he was an executive producer and game director at PlayStation London Studio, where he worked on several AR and VR projects as well as PlayStation Home.
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