Poland’s CI Video games has snapped up Tom O’Connor as its new senior vice chairman of growth.
He joins from Tencent Video games, the place he was senior director of manufacturing, particularly for the Chinese language large’s second occasion releases. O’Connor joined the video games trade again in 1996 when he was employed by Psygnosis as a senior software program tester, earlier than becoming a member of EA additionally in software program testing. From there he has held manufacturing roles at Activision, Acclaim and PlayStation – the place he spent 15-and-a-half-years – earlier than becoming a member of Tencent in 2022.
“I wish to thank Marek and the remainder of the group for the nice and cozy welcome to CI Video games,” O’Connor mentioned.
“I recognise the present strengths of the corporate – and the strides it’s already made to assembly its strategic goals – and have a transparent imaginative and prescient on how I can spearhead its manufacturing frameworks in an effort to take CI Video games to the following degree.”
CI Video games CEO Marek Tyminski added: “On behalf of the manager management group – and the corporate as a complete – I wish to welcome Tom to CI Video games. He joins at an important time as we proceed to enhance the effectivity and high quality of our titles – constructing on the enterprise optimisations we’ve made over the past six months – and assist execute the corporate technique via the expansion of our owned IPs going ahead.”
CI Video games lately laid off 10 per cent of its employees, earlier than one other “closing” spherical of layoffs noticed about 30 staff lose their roles.