LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jun 14, 2022–
Jam Metropolis, Inc., a number one recreation developer behind a few of the world’s highest-grossing and most enduring video games, at the moment introduced a number of necessary hires and promotions aimed to advance the corporate’s enlargement throughout vital classes in its free-to-play enterprise. Jam Metropolis stays dedicated to strengthening and deepening its free-to-play video games portfolio in tandem with its newly introduced blockchain division targeted on net improvement and play-and-earn video games.
Lisa Anderson has been promoted to Government Vice President, the place she is going to oversee Jam Metropolis’s free-to-play video games, together with the On line casino, Puzzle and Life-style Divisions. Anderson joined Jam Metropolis from The Walt Disney Firm in 2017, and she or he has performed an integral function in necessary initiatives together with main the mixing of the Burbank Studio into Jam Metropolis, serving to to drive explosive progress within the studio’s flagship title, Disney Emoji Blitz, and main new improvement of an thrilling recreation later this 12 months.
Along with Anderson’s promotion, Jam Metropolis has deepened its government bench with material consultants that may oversee vital divisions, reporting to her.
Dan Lipa joined Jam Metropolis to steer its On line casino Division, which incorporates Bingo Pop, Mahjong and Solitaire. Lipa is an professional in on line casino gaming, having honed his abilities at Playtika, Win Interactive and Gamesmart earlier than co-founding his personal social on line casino start-up, in addition to founding a studio specializing in hyper-casual gaming.
Brent Blazek has been appointed to steer Jam Metropolis’s Puzzle Division, which includes extremely profitable video games together with Cookie Jam, Cookie Jam Blast, Panda Pop and Genies & Gems. Blazek joins Jam Metropolis from King, the place he spent a complete of eight years – most lately because the Head of Product for Sweet Crush: Soda Saga, the place he helped to attain income progress 3 years in a row.
“We’re lucky to have superb expertise at Jam Metropolis, who through the years have created quite a few hit puzzle, narrative/RPG, and informal on line casino video games. Because the cellular gaming business continues to get extra aggressive and we proceed to scale, we’re investing in material consultants to assist us declare and retain business management, with a deal with rising present video games and launching upcoming titles,” mentioned Josh Yguado, Co-founder and President, Jam Metropolis. “We knew once we employed Lisa Anderson that she was an unbelievable expertise. She has proven up as a real chief and we’re excited to see what she is going to do on the helm of Jam Metropolis’s free-to-play genres. Reporting to Lisa, we welcome Brent and Dan to our Puzzle and On line casino divisions whose experience and confirmed talents to drive progress are vital to our success.”
About Jam Metropolis
Jam Metropolis is an award-winning cellular leisure firm offering distinctive and deeply participating video games that attraction to a broad, international viewers. Led by CEO Chris DeWolfe, former MySpace co-founder and CEO, COO Josh Yguado, former twentieth Century Fox government, and CTO Aber Whitcomb, former CTO of MySpace, Jam Metropolis is the artistic powerhouse behind a few of the highest-grossing and award-winning video games. Collectively, its video games have generated over $3B in lifetime bookings and over 1.3B cumulative recreation installs. Along with conceiving and creating the favored Cookie Jam and Panda Pop franchises, the corporate is a associate for a few of the largest international IP holders, having developed immersive, narrative-rich cellular video games round iconic leisure manufacturers from Common Video games and Digital Platforms and Warner Bros. Video games. The corporate’s widespread RPG recreation Harry Potter: Hogwarts Thriller was the #1 recreation in additional than 40 international locations at its launch and Jurassic World Alive continues to be one of many prime AR video games out there. Jam Metropolis presently has studios and expertise situated in Los Angeles (HQ), Burbank, Cedar Falls, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco and, internationally, in Berlin, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Montréal and Toronto. For extra data, please go to www.jamcity.com.
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Kristina Cole, Jam [email protected]
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SOURCE: Jam Metropolis, Inc.
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