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Career Moves: September 5, 2006

Authored by dmw on September 5, 2006 - 12:40pm.
Obopay, a mobile payments provider based in Redwood City, CA, appoints Christian Delay as Vice President of Business Development. Previously Delay was with Yahoo!, where he led various mobile business development efforts.
https://www.obopay.com/ConsumerWebApp/


Ramy Mora was appointed Vice President of Consumer Marketing at Obopay. Mora has previously worked for brands such as: Clorox, Microsoft, Yahoo!, HotWire and Shopping.com
https://www.obopay.com/ConsumerWebApp/


Obopay appoints Sam Shawki as Vice President of Customer Operations. Previously, Shawki held senior posts at Venturi Wireless and Shoretel
https://www.obopay.com/ConsumerWebApp/


Peppercoin, a provider of online micropayments technology, has named Mark Treco as its Vice President of Sales and Market Development. Previously, Treco worked as a business development manager for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic at Fujitsu Transaction Solutions, a provider of retail point-of-sale systems.
http://www.peppercoin.com


The MPEG Industry Forum, a large advocacy group for MPEG-based technologies, on Tuesday named Markus Moening, the CEO of MainConcept, and Sean McCarthy, the chief scientist of Modulus Video, to its board of directors. The board now includes seven members.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060905/20060905005419.html?.v=1
http://www.mpegif.org


RadioWeb Communications, an Internet audio entertainment and information delivery service for the hospitality space, announced last Friday the appointment of Stefan Herrmann as Chief Operating Officer.
http://www.radioweb.com/radioweb_v2.html


SmarTVideo CEO Richard Bennett steps down and David Ross, smarTVideo’s President, named Interim CEO. Ross will continue to oversee the overall strategic direction and vision of the company.
http://www.smartvideo.com/index.asp


John Abdo is appointed to the Board of Directors of smarTVideo. Abdo currently serves on numerous boards of NYSE and NASDAQ.
http://www.smartvideo.com/index.asp


SmarTVideo hires William J. Loughman as its CFO. Loughman was previously VP and CFO of AirGate PCS.
http://www.smartvideo.com/index.asp


Tarrnie Williams joins THQ Inc. as its General Manager of Relic Entertainment. Williams is charged with overseeing Relic’s day-to-day operations and all product development activities at the studio. Williams has been Executive Producer on all of Relic’s titles.
http://www.thq.com/
http://www.relic.com/


Napster hires Evan Cowitt as VP of Advertising Sales. Cowitt previously Oversaw entertainment advertising sales for IGN Entertainment Inc.
http://www.napster.com/


Mike Owen joins Napster as its Director of Advertising Sales. Owen was previously Director of Eastern Ad Sales at Entertainment Weekly for EW.com.
http://www.napster.com/


YouTube hires Gideon Yu as its first CFO. Yu was previously a Yahoo Executive.
http://www.youtube.com/


Jesse Sutton joins the Board of Directors and takes over as interim CEO of Majesco. For the past ten years, Sutton has been President of Majesco.
http://www.majescoentertainment.com/


Webzen hires Michael Morrison as its Senior Director of Information Technology. Morrison brings more than 10 years of IT Management experience to Webzen — which includes a stint as Senior Director of IT Infrastructure and Lead of the Online Systems Team at Vivendi Universal Games for more than five years.
http://www.webzen.com/


Tim Hesse is hired as Webzen’s Senior Producer for Huxley developers. Hesse comes to Webzen from Activision where he was working on Tony Hawk’s Project 8.
http://www.webzen.com/


Webzen hires Tim Holman as Senior Producer for soul of the Ultimate Nation and All Points Bulletin (APB). Holman previously worked for Bad Kitty Studio at WMS Gaming where he managed more than twenty games.
http://www.webzen.com/


Serene Chan is hired as Webzen’s Brand Manager for Soul of the Ultimate Nation. Chan has over ten years of Brand Manager experience in the gaming industry and most recently worked at Midway, where she implemented and created marketing plans for Area 51 and L.A. Rush.
http://www.webzen.com/


Short Fuze hires David Bailey as its CEO, effective October 1. Bailey brings more than a decade’s worth of game publishing and development experience to Short Fuze and was a member of the board for TIGA.
http://www.shortfuze.co.uk/index.jsp

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