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Laurent de Segur promoted at Big Fish
May 19th 2008 at 14:29 by Michael French
Big Fish Games' Laurent de Segur has been promoted from vice president of technology to chief technology officer at the developer and portal.
de Segur joined Big Fish Games last year and has held senior engineering positions at Apple, Amazon.com and Expedia.
He has over 20 years of experience in the game and software industries, having started his career at Electronic Arts as the director of media lab and dedicated two years in Japan to building a joint venture between EA and JVC.
"I am delighted to announce Laurent's promotion to CTO," said Jeremy Lewis, president and CEO of Big Fish Games. "He is a seasoned, innovative and trusted technology leader who embodies our core values of obsessive customer focus and teamwork."
"I am both humbled and honored by this promotion,” said Laurent de Segur. “Our extraordinary team at Big Fish Games is dedicated to delivering fun, innovative products to our customers, which makes this a fantastic environment for growth and success.”"
Jason Roberts
May 19th 2008 | 18:10
This is a great little company - can't wait until they get more involved in boxed publishing side. They have created some little gems of late, so I'm sure this guy deserves his move up the ladder.
Just courious
May 20th 2008 | 19:53
But what about the founder and exCEO, Paul Thelen ?
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