The recruitment merry-go-round continues apace in the mobile-social space, with the gravity (read VC money/profitability) pulling people from social to mobile.
The latest exec to follow the inverse square well is one-time EA/Playfish biz dev chap Shanti Bergel, who's now GREE's senior veep for biz dev.
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As reported by Inside Mobile Apps, Bergel says he thinks GREE's approach to the increasingly fragmented social-mobile space is the most developer friendly, especially in terms of its focus on freemium gaming and platform cross-promotion.
The GREE-owned OpenFeint also welcomed Sarah Thomson this week as its director of developer relations, while - like Bergel - another exec crossing the social-mobile beam recently was ex-Playdom executive producer Ethan Fassett, now OpenFeint's senior veep of product.
But OpenFeint CEO and founder Jason Citron bucked the trend, leaving for... well we're not quite sure yet.
[source: Inside Mobile Apps]
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