PopCap Games Hires Ex-Adobe Star Frits Habermann As Chief Technical Officer

PopCap Games, a leading casual games company with over 1 billion downloads by users, has announced that it’s hiring one of Adobe’s technology pioneers, Frits Habermann, as their new Chief Technical Officer. Frits was the VP of Core Technologies at Adobe and managed strategy and operations for Photoshop and Flash. He’s worked with games before as part of RealNetworks, handling education games.

PopCap games is best known for their Bejeweled title, which has sold 50 million units across all platforms.