Mobile gaming studios announce leadership moves across King, Scopely, and peers

Several major mobile gaming studios have announced personnel changes and promotions across leadership and development roles.

At Scopely, Chase Shi has rejoined the company as VP and head of game product after five years at Blizzard. Jonathan Marcelino has also joined Scopely as director of product on Monopoly Go, relocating to Seville after 14 years based in Berlin at Ritmo Games, which is owned by Voodoo.

King has promoted Andreas Jansson to senior director of engineering following a year as director of engineering. Borja Guillan has returned to King as senior creative director in Stockholm, working on new games alongside Anna Lernmark. Guillan previously left to co-found Tribo. Erik Meurk has joined King's new games team as senior software engineer, stepping up from a role as software engineer after 18 months in that position.

At Loom Games, Baris Girgin has been appointed marketing director, bringing six and a half years of experience at Gram Games in growth, user acquisition, app store optimization, and lifecycle marketing.

Funday Games has hired Marc Cartwright as game director, bringing 20 years of game development experience including more than seven years as a game director at CI Games, Jagex, and Tarsier.

Selin Sagim Azak has moved to Tactile Games as publishing director from Rollic. At Tripledot's Ludios studio, Stefano Deflorio has joined as associate technical director following a stint at PlaySide.

Trailmix Games has appointed Marina Anderson as head of growth, expanding the studio's leadership team. Anderson previously founded dating apps XOXO and Raw. Mick Rüdiger has also joined Trailmix as lead game engineer in its Berlin team after two and a half years at Happy Volcano.

Zynga has brought on Gerianna Marquis as project manager, previously a technical project manager at Aristocrat. Cypher Games has hired Nurullah Turgut as product specialist. FreePlay has appointed Svetlana Dulubova as user acquisition manager. Arcade.com has brought Kartik Chule on board for business development, sourcing partnerships with hybridcasual studios after co-founding digital marketing agency 49 Frames.