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Trailmix: Cofounder Tristan Clark has departed from the Love & Pies maker. He is moving onto a new venture soon which will use games to “achieve positive impact at scale”, he said on LinkedIn.
UK Video Games Council: This strategic council has been established to help shape the UK’s game sector by informing and supporting government policy. It will be co-chaired by Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley and Outright Games chair Nick Button-Brown.
The mobile representatives are Saad Choudri of Miniclip and Maria Sayans of Ustwo Games.
They are joined by fellow council members Emily Bailey (Green-BIT), Charu Desodt (Interior:Night), Kirsty Rigden (Futurelab), Dave Gould (T2), Chris Van Der Kuyl (4J Studios), Donna Orlowski (Chucklefish), Nick Poole (Ukie), Tara Saunders (Larian), Tim Varney (Microsoft) and Richard Wilson (TIGA).
Electronic Arts: Following two years as a senior producer at Netflix’s Next Games studio, Mateusz Janczewski has joined EA as director of studio operations.
Stillfront: Acast CFO and deputy CEO Emily Villatte is joining the Swedish roll-up firm as group chief financial officer. She’ll assume the position by January 7 2026, when she’ll replace interim group CFO Tim Holland.
Netflix: Former Sybo and Ustwo game director Jennifer Estaris has taken on a contract role as sustainability and games consultant at the streaming giant.
Keywords Studios: Ex-Activision Blizzard VP and Riot Games chief commercial officer Jonathan Zweig has joined the UK-based game development services firm as chief revenue officer.
Mihada Capital: This is a new advisory firm spun out from CVCapital, focused on M&A and capital raising in gaming and digital media. It was founded by advisor and investor Jim Ying, who’s serving as general manager.
Felicity Games: The Indian publisher has hired Ilker Yoldasilker as VP of product. His previous roles include head of studio at TapNation and lead game product and ops at Homa.
Moon Active: The Coin Master maker has appointed Kshiraj Telang as studio art director. He most recently held the same role at Rovio, and was also formerly principal visual development artist at King.
FunPlus: Former Mr Kite producer and Miniclip production operations lead Sérgio Alexandre has joined the State of Survival maker’s Studio Ellipsis team in Lisbon as lead development tester.
Stash: The web shop firm has hired Daniel Bowen as growth lead. He was previously director of business development at both Poplar Studio and Darabase, and most recently VP of sales at Nefta.
Appcharge: The DTC platform has appointed Timothy Greenfield as US director of business development. He joins from Coda, where he most recently served as director of global partnerships.
ZBD: The fintech company has appointed Hajar Noreddine as vice president of business development. She joins following six years at Adjoe, where she most recently served as supply partnerships lead EMEA.
TapNation: The publisher has welcomed nine new employees over the last few months, including senior Unity dev Shorav Sharma, brand sales lead Jean-Baptiste Vo, and fullstack dev Kyyas Ilmyradov.
The other new team members are game designer Ozan Demirel, marketing assistant Vladislava Stukacheva, junior ASO manager Muhammad Hussain, UA manager Gabriel Silva and Unity dev Turan Heydarli.
Almedia: There are seven new faces at the advertising company: senior backend engineer Ashraful Islam, UA manager Miguel Guerrero, B2B marketing manager Elizaveta S., data analyst Dr. Victor Tkachenko, finance team working student Klara Konkel, talent sourcer Arseny Nikov, and data engineer Niko K.
