RECRUITMENT Ins and Outs: Industry hires and moves 1 3 3 2
1 We begin with ANA ABOAL BELOSO, who celebrated ten years in the game industry by joining Secret Mode as a Brand Creative Manager. As well as marketing roles at Nintendo of Europe, Ubisoft, and Electronic Arts, Ana was most recently a Marketing Producer and Project Manager on Creative Assembly’s unfortunate Hyenas.
2 With John Galloway stepping down as Bandai Namco’s Vice President of Northern Europe,
ADRIEN GUERRA has been appointed as Bandai Namco Entertainment UK’s Country Namco Entertainment France in 2009 and will be managing the Nordic countries as well as the UK from his no-so-secret lair in Richmond
3 Back in March, JAMES BATTLEY was announced as Senior ADR Mixer at Molinare. Before joining, James spent nine years at SIDE, working with the company on providing ADR solutions for video games, cinematics and head performance capture, before
4 Keywords Studios has promoted BLANDINE PROST to be the company’s new Global Business Development Director. A Keywordian of more than 25 years, Blandine has held a number of positions across the organisation, opening Keywords’ Montreal studio and later joining the Global Sales team.
5 Antstream has announced the appointment of CHARLIE ANDRE-BARRETT as Publishing Director. Prior to joining the streaming retro gaming service, Charlie was Curve Games’ Business Development Director and before that Global Head of Sales for Team17. With the likes of Bethesda, THQ and Ubisoft also on his CV, Charlie has done the rounds, so to speak.
6 The co-founder of Domark DOMINIC WHEATLEY, who remains a Director at Catalis despite exiting the Chair late last year, is joining Blaze Entertainment as its new Chairman. Somewhat serendipitously, with Blaze three Tomb Raider games for its Evercade retro consoles, it means Dominic is being reunited with Lara Croft for the as the CEO of Eidos in 1997.
7 JAMES LAW, who MCV groupies will have seen at IRL last year when he formally joined the hallowed ranks of the 30 Under 30, has hooked up with Raptor PR from Heaven Media. Formally Raptor’s PR Director, James will oversee the development of the B2B agency’s exciting new consumer gaming PR division
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8 welcomed GARRY LEWIS to the fold as its Central Art Manager. Previously Garry was the Studio Art Manager at Deep Silver Volition, the once-great studio behind the Descent, Freespace and Saints Row franchises that, because there have been so many announcements since, most will have forgotten was was shut down by Embracer Group last year.
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