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Exspect hires Hughes and Heale Double appointment for peripherals firm Microsoft loses Leigh Frogster expands online marketing team EXSPECT The peripherals firm has added two new members to its team. KAREN HUGHES and MARK HEALE now take up the roles of trade marketing assistant and national account manager respectively. Hughes has worked in the games industry since 1987, when she joined publisher US Gold before moving to ISM. ISM was acquired by Channel Advantage, which Hughes left in June this year. Heale joins Exspect from defunct publisher Empire Interactive, where he most recently worked as national account manager and looked
Games veterans Hughes and Heale bring their talents to Exspect
after UK retailers. Before this, he spent time working for Sega and has over eight years of experience at DVD firm, such as 2entertain and VCI. “As an ongoing commitment to developing our overall pool of talented people, bringing
Karen and Mark in is great news for all our customers,” said Exspect’s commercial director NEIL MEREDITH. “As we continue to explore the opportunities in the gaming market, it was a natural choice to recruit gaming experts.”
FROGSTER STEFAN HINZ has been appointed as the publisher’s new online marketing manager. He brings experience with both national and international marketing to the team, and has worked as freelance writer, graphic designer and concept developer for a range of agencies and indvidiual clients. He has worked in the games industry since 2005, most recently as the head of Ascaron’s online marketing department. “We have been looking for the right experienced team player for our marketing
department for a long time,” said ROLF KLÖPPEL, Frogster’s head of marketing and PR. “Somoene who can help us both creatively and efficiently in marketing our products. Now with Stefan Hinz, our team gains yet more clout and our search has come to and end.” MICROSOFT MCV understands that SAMANTHA LEIGH, UK marketing manager for third-party Xbox titles, has left the company. She was instrumental in the launch of several key Xbox 360 titles. Microsoft is currently looking for her replacement.