Jobs Roundup: September 2023 | ESA hires Christianna Barnhart as SVP of government affairs
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The ESA has hired Christianna Barnhart as its new senior vice president of government affairs.
Barnhart will report to CEO and president Stanley Pierre-Louis. She will oversee the trade association's advocacy on regulatory matters and state and federal legislation.
Her professional career includes experience working in the public and private sectors. Before her new role, she worked as senior counsel for the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; she was in the role for four years.
Barnhart also had a five-year stint as charter communications vice president of regulatory affairs.
"I look forward to working with policymakers to demonstrate the powerful economic impact and positive benefits video games have on American lives," she said in the announcement of her hiring.
Guy Blomberg has been named as event director of DreamHack festivals.
In the role, he will lead the operations and rollout of events in the Americas.
Blomberg's career history includes serving as global gaming content director at ReedPop; he was with the company for eight years. He worked as program director with Xsolla and had a one-year stint as vice president of business development at Stride PR.
Blomberg also founded the virtual online event Games Industry Gathering in 2020.
In the announcement of his appointment, he said, "It's been a weird time for gaming events around the world the last few
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