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Team Liquid Parent aXiomatic Gaming Promotes Mark Vela to CEO

April 21, 2021

Video game and esports investment platform and Team Liquid parent company aXiomatic Gaming announced Tuesday that Mark Vela has been promoted from his role as chief strategy officer to become the company’s ch...

Overwatch Director Jeff Kaplan Leaving Blizzard Entertainment

April 21, 2021

Blizzard Entertainment announced Tuesday that Jeff Kaplan, director of Overwatch, is leaving the company. With his departure, Aaron Keller, one of the members of the Overwatch executive team will be stepping...

Creative Marketing Agency Hotdrop Hires Perry Smith as COO

April 19, 2021

Hotdrop, a London-based marketing agency that works with gaming rights holders, tournament organizers, and teams, has appointed Perry Smith as its new chief operating officer. Smith has held esports-related ...

Exness Recruits Shlomi Dubish as Head of External Communications

April 19, 2021

Exness announced that it has recruited Shlomi Dubish as its new Head of External Communications, effective from March 2021. In an exclusive press release to FortuneZ, Shlomi Dubish, who recently left eToro a...

Sportradar Appoints Bloomberg’s Marketing Chief Bigley To Board

April 19, 2021

Sportradar has appointed Deirdre Bigley, the chief marketing officer of media corporation Bloomberg, to its board of directors with immediate effect. Bigley has led marketing at Bloomberg since 2014, with re...

Scientific Games Names Victor Blanco As Next CTO

April 17, 2021

Scientific Games has announced that Victor Blanco will join the Company in 2022 as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Blanco will oversee Scientific Games’ technology strategy to support the Company’s l...

PandaScore Hires Betgenius Veteran Niner As Head of Sales

April 16, 2021

Esports data and odds provider, PandaScore, has appointed Oliver Niner as its new head of sales. Niner holds previous experience at Betgenius, Marathonbet, Oulala Games, and was most recently at start-up pla...

Paulo Dybala Signs as Skrill Brand Ambassador

April 15, 2021

Argentinian international and Juventus icon, Paulo Dybala, has signed a new deal to represent digital payments brand Skrill. Dybala’s first appearance for Skrill will be in a TV, digital and PR campaign to p...

Raketech Eyes William Hill CEO As New Chairman

April 7, 2021

Online affiliate and content market provider Raketech has proposed appointing William Hill chief executive Ulrik Bengtsson as its new chairman, after Christian Lundberg declined re-election to the role. Beng...

Exness Promotes Artem Seledtsov to New Markets Business Director

April 6, 2021

Global multi-asset broker Exness has announced the promotion of Artem Seledtsov as its New Markets Business Director. Artem will take ownership of the development of Exness’ new markets across the globe. He ...