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1 CHARLOTTE REYNOLDSON has been promoted from PR manager to director at Honest PR, where she has been busy this year helping to launch Lords of the Fallen, Fae Farm and Wargroove 2. She also works with Build A Rocket Boy, Cloud Imperium, Newfangled Games, and more. In her new role she will take on even more responsibility, taking on even more clients and generally looking after her team.
2 JAKE KULKOWSKI has recently gone public with his new agency Guillotine. He has left the team at Dead Good, and already has some interesting clients and projects lined up, including work with RGG Studios & SEGA. Guillotine has promised to focus on people, collaboration and clear results, rather than automated systems and do-it- yourself dashboards.
MARIUS POTIRNICHE to joined the leadership team at the company when his QA acquired in 2020. He has been mostly working in mergers and acquisitions between 2020 and 2023, and also led the over in Portugal.
4 Testronic has also appointed ADAM KEATING as senior vice president of sales and marketing. He comes to them from Room 8, where he was vice president of global business development. Before that, he served as Head of EMEA sales for games and entertainment at the localisation specialist Lionbridge.
5 Testronic’s parent company Catalis Group has also announced that DOMINIC WHEATLEY has left his role director. In his time in charge, he grew Catalis until it numbered more than 2,000 employees, and raised revenues to over $100 million. He also recruited new management teams for Curve Games and Testronic, which will
6 BBC Studios has announced that ASHWIN DESAI has been appointed as global director for gaming and interactive for BBC Studios brands and licensing. He will report to managing director of consumer products and licensing Stephen Davies, and be responsible for developing and delivering the global gaming and interactive strategies for big world-renowned brands like Bluey, BBC Earth and Doctor Who.
7 MARCO A. MINOLI has been promoted at Slitherine, from marketing director to director of publishing. He joined Slitherine in 2007 due to his love of their and to face the challenges of making an impact on a smaller organisation. Now that the company has grown, his goals
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have too, and he hopes to transform the strategy gaming market around the world as his
8 CALLUM AYERS has left his job as brand marketing manager at Team17 for a new role at Beyond Frames, an XR publisher task as their senior marketing manager will be to focus on the Ghosts of Tabor, as it leaves AppLab for a full release on the
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