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EIDOS PLC ANNOUNCES
NEW APPOINTMENT
Copyright 2007 Eidos plc Press Release
[ February 9th 2007 ]
Eidos
Interactive, one of the world’s leading publishers
and developers of entertainment software, is pleased
to announce the appointment of Markus Schuetze
as Marketing Manager and Ole Mogensen as Producer
effective immediately.
Simon
Protheroe, New Media and IT Director of Eidos,
welcomed the latest additions to the Eidos New
Media team, "Markus and Ole are a valuable
addition to Eidos’ ongoing expansion in the mobile
games market. With their experience and understanding
of the marketplace, we are looking forward to
a further increase in our sales figures across
Europe."
Markus
Schuetze has worked in the mobile games industry
since late 2004 and has joined Eidos New Media
from French mobile games company In-Fusio where
he was Games Product Manager. He has coordinated
and provided marketing strategies for games such
as Red Out Racer, Battlestar Galactica and The
Munsters Pinball.
Schuetze
previously worked in the videogame industry as
a Product Manager for THQ Germany in 2002. In
this role he coordinated all marketing activities
for the MotoGP, WWE and SpongeBob licenses, as
well as working on titles including Full Spectrum
Warrior, Broken Sword 3, MX Superfly, MX Unleashed
and Destroy All Humans!
Ole Mogensen
started working in the gaming-industry in 1990
as a producer for Danish based games company Interactivision,
before co-founding Brain Bug in 1992, a small
development studio and landing a contract with
Rainbow Arts developing their own properties as
well as doing conversions. Following the Softgold
acquisition of Brain Bug in 1995 Ole continued
as a producer overseeing their internal projects
as well as handling external projects.
When
Softgold was itself acquired by THQ, Ole was promoted
to executive producer and worked on games including:
Starwars, Earthworm Jim 1+2, Yager, X-Beyond the
Frontier, MicroMachines, Worms mobile. In 2004
Ole joined In-Fusio where he has worked alongside
Markus Schuetze over the last couple of years.
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