New hires in mobile: Big Fish Games, KLab and Plumbee

Hiring in the mobile apps sector was up significantly this week, with 30 new hires spread between 16 companies. Based on information from LinkedIn and other sources, Gameloft and GREE reported the most activity with 5 hires each. This week’s highest profile hire went to StepLeader which brought on Chris Hanburger as VP of business development. If your mobile game or social app company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please get in touch with us. Email us at: mail (at) insidemobileapps (dot) com, and we’ll get your news into an upcoming post. If you want to know who else is hiring, the Inside Network Job Board showcases current openings with the industry’s leading companies. Akamon Entertainment John Millar, Head of Facebook -- A high profile hire for Akamon. Millar was previously a product manager at Wooga. Big Fish Games Andy Pierce, Senior Program Manager - IT Operations -- Big Fish Games makes our list this week with a promotion. Pierce was previously the company’s IT Project Manager. EA PopCap Benjamin Flint, Sr. Data Engineer -- Flint was formerly a senior software engineer for eHarmony.com. Gameloft Amin Haji-Abolhassani, Researcher -- Five hires this week for Gameloft. Haji-Abolhassani starts his career at the company. Anabel Willie, Web Designer -- Willie comes from Vostu, where she was a vec artist. Erin Hassey, Digital Distribution Marketing Associate -- Hassey also begins her career at Gameloft. Regan Music, QA Tester -- As does Music. Luis Hidalgo, Gameplay Developer -- Hidalgo is also a programmer at Sadiel. Gloops Bruce Morrison, Producer -- Three more hires this week at Gloops. Morrison was a producer, business development at ngmoco. Mark Tse, Senior Digital Artist -- Tse was formerly game artist at Playdom. Jessica Bruno, Digital Artist -- Bruno was a freelance artist and game artist at Sugar before joining Gloops. GREE Daniel Brown, Business Intelligence Data Analyst -- Brown worked in account management and data science at Kontagent. David Eckelberry, Sr Game Designer -- Eckelberry was previously a lead designer at EA. Julie Kim, Concept Artist -- Kim was formerly a concept artist at Obsidian Entertainment. Oleksandr Kurochka, QA Engineer -- Kurochka was a QA engineer at Memocast inc. Randall Q. Montanari, Graphic Designer -- Montanari was previously was a product designer (GameSpot.com) at CBS Interactive. HYFN Jon Wheat, Business Development -- Three hires at HYFN this week. Wheat was the advertising director at BiggerBoat. David Russotto, Business Development -- Russotto was the former director of business development at The On3 Group. Matt Otto, Senior Software Developer -- Otto was formerly a social media engineer at Chico's FAS, Inc. InMobi Sandeep Injarapu, Product Analyst -- Injarapu was previously a manager at TechCrew Solutions. Shelton Coutinho, Brand Sales - West -- Coutinho was a senior manager at Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd. (Times Group). KLab Farah Memon, Marketing Manager -- Memon moves from Digital Chocolate, where she was the Sr. marketing specialist. NaturalMotion Beau Bateman, 2D/3D Artist -- Bateman comes to NaturalMotion from Scrap Metal Games, where he was the lead artist. Playtika Andrew Mazur, Flash Developer -- Mazur was a flash developer at OnClick. Plumbee Geraldo Nascimento, Mobile Client Engineer -- Nascimento comes from BOLD International in Lisbon, Portugal, where he was a consultant. Frederico Garcia, Mobile Client Engineer -- Garcia was formerly an interactive developer at EDIGMA. Pocket Gems Rutika Muchhala, Product Management -- Muchhala was previously a business analyst at McKinsey & Company. Rovio Päivi Arenius, Trainee -- Arenius is also a freelance graphic designer. StepLeader Chris Hanburger, VP of Business Development -- A high profile hire for StepLeader. Hanburer was previously the VP of global sales at aiMatch. Storm8 Nikki Tomacruz, Engineering Recruiter -- Tomacruz was a technical sourcer at Google.

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