GAMELOFT - Key Persons
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- Marketing Manager & PR / Middle East & North Africa
I take care of shaders, render pipeline and special effects development in our in-house engine
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- Member of the Management Team
- General Manager - Chief Financial Officer
Alexandre de Rochefort is Chief Financial Officer of Gameloft. Alexandre de Rochefort was graduated from ESSEC (Paris) and student at Sciences Po (Paris). He began his career at Schroders Securities in London as an equity analyst in the Technogy team. Alexandre de Rochefort joined Gameloft in July 2000, shortly after the creation of the company. His career spans over 17 years. He has developed a strong knowledge of financial markets and video game industry.
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- Member of the Management Team
- SVP
- SVP Advertising
Alexandre Tan is SVP Advertising at Gameloft
He joined Gameloft in 2004 as Managing Director for the publisher's U.K. subsidiary, responsible for its commercial expansion in the U.K., Eire and South Africa.
He then took on various business-development and account-management roles, such as managing Gameloft's global relationship with Apple and launching Gameloft's first gaming distribution partnerships with Internet Service Providers, such as Free, as well as with various smart TV manufacturers such as Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Lenovo.
Prior to joining Gameloft, Alexandre worked in the U.K. and France as a management consultant for Ernst & Young and Salustro Reydel Management.
Alexandre holds a B.A. (Hons) in International Business Administration from the European Business School London and a FORCOMEX diploma from ISUGA in Quimper.
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- Member of the Management Team
- VP Barcelona Studio
Alexandru Adam is the VP Barcelona Studio.
He began his career as a Web Designer and later as Game Journalist in Bucharest.
Alexandru started work in Gameloft in 2002, joining the Quality Assurance team in the early days of the Company. Later he moved into Game Design and, after a few years, successfully transitioned into management as Executive Producer. He then transferred to Gameloft's Barcelona studio, where he became Studio Manager.
During his career, he led the development of multiple award-winning, bestselling games such as Despicable Me: Minion Rush and Asphalt 8: Airborne.
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- Member of the Management Team
- in 2013 As OEM Associate Director
- VP Sales and Marketing North Asian
Alix started his professional career as Overseas Marketing Manager at a Chinese mobile telephony company (OEM), K-Touch.
Alix joined Gameloft in 2013 as OEM Associate Director. In his role, Alix is in charge of supervising all the sales and marketing activity in China. In 2016, Alix was promoted to Vice President Sales and Marketing for the North Asian region of Gameloft.
Looking back at the memories of UNO makes me feel happy, through all the tribulations it was still a ton of fun making the game.
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- Marketing Manager & PR / Italy
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Member of the Management Team
- a Latin America Business Developer
- General Manager - Chief Operating Officer
Baudouin Corman is Chief Operating Officer of Gameloft. Baudouin Corman is a graduate of ESSEC (Paris). He began his career as a consultant at Oliver Wyman.
In 2005, Baudouin Corman joined Gameloft as a Latin America business developer. He was successively Latin America Sales and Marketing Director (2007-2009), Vice President Publishing Americas (2009-2014) and General Manager Americas (2014-2016) based in San Francisco. He is currently Chief Operating Officer. During his career, Baudouin Corman led partnerships with Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon and with telcos and telecom manufacturers such as America Movil, Telefonica, Verizon, Samsung... He launched the Gameloft's advertising agency in North and South America.
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- PR Manager / North America
Betty is the head of Human Resources for North America, bettering our employees' lives and managing HR, recruitment and payroll teams for Montreal and the US.
The sense of team is immense. It makes me feel like a sports person during the big game. There is a feeling of shared pride and ownership that is hard to match.
Meeting fans who play our games in person was an unforgettable experience! Seeing their virtual parks was definitely a memorable moment.
Job Titles:
- SVP Marketing & Communications
Damien Marchi is SVP Marketing & Communications at Gameloft.
Damien has more than 17 years of experience in the creation, production, commercialization and marketing of entertainment content properties for television and digital media. He spearheaded the online adaptations of shows such as The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, American Idol, Big Brother as well as the launch of the globally acclaimed YouTube channel SortedFood, and has collaborated with prestigious brands such as Red Bull, Dubai Tourism, Air France, P&G, and L'Oréal. Damien has also been a member of the Executive Committee of Euronews (now part of NBC News).
Before joining Gameloft, Damien was Global Head of Content at Havas, part of the Vivendi Group, where he was supporting clients and agencies with their content and entertainment marketing strategies.
Over the course of his career, Damien's projects have been recognized with numerous awards including a prestigious Emmy Award and two Grand Prix at the Crystal Festival and at the Dubai Lynx festivals of advertising.
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- Marketing Manager & PR / Spain
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- Member of the Management Team
- SVP
- Managing Director for North America
- SVP Strategic Partnerships
Guilherme Lachaut is SVP of Strategic Partnerships.
He is the global head of OTT distribution and partnerships, as well as Licensing.
Guilherme began his career in Digital Advertising where he worked as an International Project Manager in charge of coordinating audiovisual crews, designers and R&D teams for B2B clients. With a strong interest in innovation and new technologies, he worked for start-ups in France and San Francisco, where he directed business development.
He joined Gameloft in 2013, where he managed Gameloft's global partnership with Google. Over the following years, he progressively accepted leadership of the global OTT team based in San Francisco, California.
In 2016, Guilherme was promoted to Managing Director for North America and manages Sales and Marketing teams for the USA and Canada. He was promoted to Vice President in 2018.
When joining Gameloft's ExCom at the end of 2019, he relocated to Gameloft headquarters in Paris, France.
Ivanna Chipak is an HR Manager. She has been a part of Lviv Gameloft as an office manager since its foundation. She represents herself as a flexible but serious and responsible worker.
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- Manager
- Montreal in 2005 As a Junior Programmer
- Studio Manager Montreal
Jocelyn Lefrancois is the Studio Manager at Gameloft Montreal.
After receiving a degree in Computer Engineering from Concordia University (Canada), Jocelyn joined Gameloft Montreal in 2005 as a Junior Programmer. He quickly became a Producer, and then the Senior Producer on one of Gameloft's most prestigious franchises, Dungeon Hunter.
From 2005 to 2007, he worked as a Deployment Producer. In 2008, Jocelyn got his start in the Creation department, where he delivered the following games: Date or Ditch (mobile), American Popstar (DS), NFL 2010 and NFL 2011 (iOS), as well as the various Dungeon Hunter titles.
I'm a geek with a soft spot for new technologies (and a law degree that remains utterly unused in every way). I enjoy life, surrounding myself with people, and firmly believe in the happiness of pursuit.
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- Live Operations Specialist
I've had opportunities to travel & meet people from different countries all sharing the same passion for games that I treasure.
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- General Counsel
- Member of the Management Team
Jérôme Sibade is Gameloft's General Counsel.
Jérôme Sibade has a Master's degree in business law (Paris X University - Nanterre) and a DESS (equivalent to a Master's degree) in international law (Toulouse I University). He joined Gameloft in 2002 where he first took on the role in-house legal expert in business law before becoming Deputy General Counsel. In 2016, he was named General Counsel of the Gameloft Group.
Over the course of his career, Jérôme Sibade has worked on many partnerships and contracts with key actors in the mobile video game industry.
I belong to the UI/UX team where I implement the UI for Asphalt and other projects in collaboration with the designers and the programmers.
Maksym Shostak started to work in Lviv Gameloft as QA Tester. Discovering such qualities as being a motivated and ambition person let him reach a Game Producer.
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- Marketing Manager & PR / Germany
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- Marketing Manager & PR / Mexico
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- Director of Online Global Services
Marianne is Director of Online Global Services who is leading the Infrastructure Services & Online Products Platform Solutions (ISOPS) is grouping of 3 teams: Security, Online and Infrastructure.
Mario manages the financial and administrative side of our studio as well as the rest of South and North America, making strategic financial decisions and making sure we use our resources well.
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- Member of the Management Team
- Chief Executive Officer of FreshPlanet
In 1995, Mathieu founded WebConcept, one of the first e-business consulting companies in France and sold it to the Swedish company, IconMediaLab (euronext: lbi), in 1999.
As President of IconMediaLab in France, Mathieu continued developing the company up until 2001 when he became president of Boonty.com, one of the largest casual game platforms in the world, sold to Nexway in December 2008.
Mathieu started FreshPlanet in New York in September 2009. FreshPlanet is the publisher and developer of the world's biggest trivia games and multi-awarded SongPop and SongPop 2, downloaded more than 100 million times.
Mathieu is a graduate of the Management School of Grenoble, and hold an MBA from the Lubin School of Business in New York.
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- Member of the Management Team
- in 2004 As a Producer
- Operations SVP
- SVP Services & Processes
Mathieu Verlaet is Operations SVP at Gameloft
Graduated from HEC, Mathieu Verlaet joined Gameloft in 2004 as a Producer on Java games, before moving on to console games. He worked on a variety of Gameloft licenses, including Midnight Bowling, Block Breaker and Real Football.
As Studio Manager, Matthieu is encouraging the Montreal teams to innovate and aim for excellence. With the support of more than 475 enthusiasts, he's leading the production of our Montreal games.
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- Senior Marketing Manager SEMEA
Everyone at Gameloft would tell me their favourite part is "The people!" I'm happy to say it's true for me, too!
Nikita Cherniak started to work in Lviv Gameloft as a Game QA. Soon he has been promoted to Game Producer position. Now he works successfully with Lviv Gameloft projects.
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- Member of the Management Team
- Critic
- Manager of Gameloft ‘Bucharest Studio
- VP Eastern Europe Studios
Paul Friciu began his career as a critic for a video game magazine in the late 1990s.
He joined the Gameloft studio in Bucharest in December 2000 as a Game Designer to work on the Pocket PC division of the company.
In 2002, Paul Friciu became the Studio Manager of Gameloft ‘Bucharest studio, which, a few years later, was extended with the opening of seven other studios, including the one in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Job Titles:
- Division Manager
- Mobile Creation Division Manager
Philip Bouchet is the Mobile Creation Division Manager in charge of Gameloft's Pocket HD activity.
He began his career as a category manager at EMI Music.
Philip graduated from Telecom Paris-HEC, then joined a consulting and technology-integration practice at Niji.
Philip Bouchet joined Gameloft in 2006, where he has successively served as Producer (2006-2008), Executive Producer (2008-2011), and Division Manager.
During his career, Philip Bouchet led the development of multiple award-winning, bestselling games; launched the company's social-network- and advertising-related activities; and restructured its feature-phone activity, transitioning it toward Pocket HD.
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- Managing Director ( Russia, CIS )
Hey! Creating videogames is a hard, long and stressful journey, but is what I love. Join the team and enjoy the trip
Game economy design is tough work that demands skills of diversity. Dark humor is not one of them, but I have it anyway
Roman Garmash has been a Studio Manager of Lviv Gameloft since 2016. He started his track as Customer Care Manager and developed himself to Studio Manager position. He is a professional worker and a talented manager.
Roman Tkachuk takes the position of Game Manager. He started his path in Kharkiv Gameloft and in some time he moved to Lviv. He is a talented leader who is able to manage delegating and sharing the task in his team.
My memorable moments are adding tournaments to UNO, Launching DMK to great success and building my first RPG…and it's LEGO!
Launching DMK was a great memory. It was really fun celebrating at the Summer Party with the team as this was my first time ever to Toronto Island.
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- Member of the Management Team
- SVP Human Resources
Sonia Ettinger is a graduated from University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas) in Private Law. She also holds a Master degree in Labor Law from La Sorbonne University. She began her career in 2003 at Humblot-Grant Alexander, a recruitment agency, dealing with IT practice. In 2007, Sonia first joined the video game industry with Ubisoft, mostly dealing with international teams. Three years later, she was hired by video game developer Quantic Dream as Human Resources Director for the production of Beyond Two Souls. In 2016, Ymagis Group, the European specialist in digital technologies for the cinema and audiovisual industries appointed her as Vice President, HR.
Her experiences in strategy, leadership and talent management in both the creative and tech sectors led her to return to the gaming industry as Vice-President HR in summer 2019 at Gameloft.
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- PR and Communication Manager
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- Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Management Team
Stéphane Roussel is chairman and CEO of Gameloft. He is also at the Vivendi Management Board and he is Vivendi's Chief Operating Officer (COO). Stéphane Roussel is a graduate of the École des Psychologues Praticiens de Paris. He began his career working for the Xerox group from 1985 to 1997. From 1997 to 2004, he held positions within the Carrefour group in France and abroad. From 2004-2009, he served as SFR's Vice President of Human Resources. From 2009 to 2012, he joined the headquarters of Vivendi and became Activision Blizzard Director before being appointed Chairman and CEO of SFR in June 2012, a position he held until its sale.
Stéphane Roussel was appointed to the Vivendi Management Board on June 24, 2014. Since November 2015, he has been Vivendi's Chief Operating Officer.
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- SVP
- SVP Southeast Asia Studios
Sébastien Auligny is SVP Southeast Asia Studios at Gameloft.
Sébastien Auligny graduated in sciences for engineering at ESIGEC (Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Chambéry) and joined a senior management program with CEIBS (China Europe International Business School). He began his career in 2000, working at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was in charge of scientific and technical cooperation projects between France and Vietnam.
He joined Gameloft in 2007 as a Studio Manager and moved up to the role of Southeast Asia Group Studio Manager after successfully opening and managing seven production studios in Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. He has served as French Trade Advisor (Conseiller du Commerce Extérieur) since 2016 and as such makes use of his experience to serve France's economic interests abroad.
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- Member of the Management Team
- SVP
- SVP Creation
Thomas Aurick is SVP Creation at Gameloft.
A graduate of KEDGE Business School (formerly ESC Bordeaux), he began his career as an Executive Producer at Gameloft in 2008. He went on to work as Brand Production Manager and Game Development Director before becoming Vice President Creation in 2014, where he took charge of the group's editorial strategy.
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- Member of the Management Team
- SVP Products
Vincent Boiteau is SVP Products
After earning an MBA, Vincent launched his career with Gameloft as a producer at its Montreal studio, before becoming the studio manager there in 2006.
From 2016 until the end of 2017, Vincent was CHOU Entertainment's head of production. In 2018 he returned to Gameloft as OTT director before becoming Vice President Products.
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- Country Manager
- Member of the Management Team
- VP Global Sales & Distribution
He started his career as a Pre-Sales Engineer at HP. In 2005, Yann Fourneau joined Gameloft as a Country Manager (Spain). Later, he became the Sales & Marketing Director for Southern Europe (2008-2012), and then Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (2012-2016), a position based in Dubai.