RECRUITMENT Ins and Outs: Industry hires and moves 1 3


worked in the sphere since 2011 when she started her career at Lionhead Studios as a user interface artist on the Fable titles. Outside of  metal and drawing animal illustrations. (Not the one from  aware, but you never know with their shared love of rock.)


6 ALIX TAYLOR-SEARLE is now a producer at Auroch     the BFI, the BBC, as well as working with other independent  houses.


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1 CHRIS SPEARING has started a new role as chief  Companion Group, a studio that specialises in live


multiplayer game development, games as a service, and other tech-based backend services for the games industry. He’s worked in the video game industry for over 20 years, and has held executive roles at Sony, PDP and Logitech.


2 KRASIMIR NECHEVSKI is now at Gunzilla Games, where he’ll serve as animation director on their upcoming battle royale  to them from Unity, where he  that received millions of views.


3 SOPHIE BENEFER as a senior writer. She describes herself as a ‘mezzo soprano cat-crazy


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  before making her move into video games. Sophie is also a Women in Games ambassador 


4 JAMI SALATI is now over at Sumo Leamington, where he’ll be working as a level designer. He’s been in the games industry for over six years working on all sorts of titles, but most recently worked as a combat designer on the strategy game Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, making him lucky enough to have worked on both the Mario and Rayman franchises at the same time.


5 Atomhawk has taken on JENNY BREWER as a senior  experience is something Jenny deeply cares about, and she’s


7 Bandai Namco Europe has appointed ANTHONY MACARÉ as the chief 


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 publisher has said that his appointment to the executive management team will reinforce its go-to-market strategy and maximise its  been with the company since  


8 HERVÉ HOERDT has  Europe, and is now its    has said that his appointment highlights its continued focus on content creation and publishing and deepening   in 2009 as its sales and marketing director for France, and last worked for them as recently as 2019.


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