Family-run Arkadium embarks on a new leadership transition
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Arkadium has been a family-run company for more than two decades. It still is, but now it is embarking on a new leadership transition.
Kenny Rosenblatt, cofounder and president of Arkadium, will take over as CEO of the maker of casual games for grown-ups from his wife and cofounder, Jessica Rovello.
Rovello will become executive chairwoman of the New York company, which the husband-and-wife team created in 2001. She will oversee quarterly board meetings but also consider work outside of Arkadium, Rosenblatt said in an interview with GamesBeat.
It’s a big change.
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“We have always been together, as a family and at work,” Rosenblatt said. “We worked side-by-side at our desks fo over 20 years.”
This is not the first time that the duo have changed the top job. Seven years ago, Rovello became CEO while Rosenblatt became president, reversing a management order that had been in place since the founding of the company.
Her tenure took place during a turbulent time, and geopolitics played a big role. In the spring of 2014, as the crisis in Ukraine turned into civil war, the Russian Federation invaded the Crimean peninsula, a region of Ukraine, and annexed it as part of Russia. Arkadium happened to have its biggest game studio — a seasoned mobile-game development crew of more than 100 people — in Simferopol, Crimea. Overnight, it became a Russian territory, with armed occupiers knocking on doors and verifying identities.
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