Keywords Studios PLC Senior Management Team changes
10 July 2018 - 4:00PM
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Keywords Studios PLC
10 July 2018
10 July 2018
Keywords Studios plc ("Keywords", "the Group")
Senior Management Team changes
Keywords Studios, the international technical services provider
to the global video games industry, today announces that it has
made a number of key appointments within its leadership team to
strengthen the business, further drive integration and support its
continued growth path.
Igor Efremov who had various roles in Enterprise Systems
Management at Electronic Arts, before founding and running
Sperasoft, which was acquired by Keywords in December 2017, has
been appointed to the new role of Chief Commercial Officer. In this
position, Igor will lead the seven global Service Lines of Keywords
as well as the global Business Development team which continues to
be ably led by Michael Wallen. Igor assumes the leadership of the
Service Lines from Giacomo Duranti, COO, and the Business
Development responsibility from Andrew Day, CEO. Giacomo, retains
responsibility for global operations, IT, Legal and M&A
execution and will now take on the leadership of Human Resources
and the Regional, Country and Studio Management organisation which
had been headed up by Andrew Day. Giacomo will be supported by Mark
Rizzo, formerly COO of Sperasoft who is taking up the role of
Global Operations Director. Prior to cofounding Sperasoft, Mark
held senior technology management positions at video games
companies, Electronic Arts, Sony, NCSoft, and Trion Worlds.
Keywords has appointed Andrew Brown to the newly created role of
Chief Marketing Officer. Andrew has a background in marketing and
general management initially within consumer products groups
including Danone, Coca Cola and Johnson & Johnson and held
roles of UK Managing Director and SVP Americas at Activision
Blizzard.
Jamie Campbell who joined the Group through the acquisition of
d3t Ltd in October 2017 has taken up the role of Service Line
Director for the Engineering Services Line. Prior to founding d3t,
where Jamie was CEO, he was Technical Director at games developer
and publisher, THQ Inc. and has an early background in embedded
systems engineering and games programming.
Andrew Day, Chief Executive Officer of Keywords Studios,
commented:
"These changes and additions to our leadership team at Keywords
add capability and capacity as we continue to develop our global
video games services platform. Welcoming companies into the
Keywords family and integrating them including to the extent of
complementing the leadership team with talented individuals from
those companies, is something we pride ourselves on and it is
pleasing to see this being reflected in these latest people
moves.
"For me personally, devolving some of the day to day
responsibilities to Giacomo and Igor means I can continue to drive
our strategic vision, originate M&A opportunities and interface
with our employee, client and investor stakeholders more
effectively."
For further information, please contact:
Keywords Studios (www.keywordsstudios.com)
Andrew Day, Chief Executive Officer
David Broderick, Chief Financial Officer
Giacomo Duranti, Chief Operating Officer +353 190 22 730
Numis (Financial Adviser)
Stuart Skinner / Kevin Cruickshank
(Nominated Adviser)
James Black / Tom Ballard (Corporate
Broker) 020 7260 1000
MHP Communications (Financial PR) 020 3128 8771
Katie Hunt / Ollie Hoare keywords@mhpc.com
Notes to Editors
Keywords Studios is an international technical services provider
to the global video games industry. Established in 1998, and now
with over 42 facilities in 20 countries strategically located in
Asia, the Americas and Europe, it provides integrated art creation,
software engineering, testing, localisation, audio and customer
care services across more than 50 languages and 16 games platforms
to a blue-chip client base of approximately 650 clients across the
globe. It has a strong market position, providing services to 23 of
the top 25 most prominent games companies, including Activision
Blizzard, Bandai Namco, Bethesda, Electronic Arts, Konami, Riot
Games, Sony, Square Enix, Supercell, TakeTwo, and Ubisoft. Recent
titles worked on include Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Call of Duty:
WWII, Mortal Combat X, Assassin's Creed Origins, Battlefield 1,
League of Legends, Fortnite, Clash Royale, and Mobile Strike.
Keywords Studios is listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange
regulated market (KWS.L).
www.keywordsstudios.com
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