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Microsoft: Laura Taranto is Minecraft’s new director of product. She brings many years of product lead experience to the role after stints at Wooga, Mind Candy, King, Scopely and most recently Big Fish.
Scopely: GamingonPhone spotted that Quinn Shelton has joined the Monopoly Go maker as VP and GM. He moves over from Epic Games, where he was senior director of product management and UXR. Shelton has also served as product management director on Fortnite and as senior product manager on Treyarch’s Call of Duty games at Activision.
Ubisoft: Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot are the new co-CEOs of the first of several new ‘creative houses’ at Ubisoft. They will be in charge of the Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six franchises.
Tilting Point: Former Scopely and Glu exec Rohit Naini is the new VP of corporate development at the US publisher. Enric Dalmau has also joined as senior manager of corporate development, having worked in similar roles at Sandsoft and Scopely.
Google: Tomer Aminizar is now senior growth manager at Google, having moved over from AppHarbr, where he was account executive. Aminizar has also previously worked at Playstudios and Intel.
Homa: Former Hutch head of analytics Anna Yukhtenko has taken a new role at Homa as associate director of analytics.
Appcharge: Aki Havo has been appointed head of nordics at the webshop firm. He joins from Logitech, and has previously worked at Loupedeck, Mirum, Activeark and Digital Chocolate.
Mobilityware: Three new hires at the Solitaire maker: former Yahoo ASO manager Nathan Nguyen, ex-Meta engineering manager Liana Eisenberger (director of engineering, ad tech and AI) and Jay Shah (data analyst), who moves over from Sega.