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Seth Schiesel | Director of executive communications, Xbox
Former New York Times journalist Seth Schiesel has joined Microsoft as director of executive communications.
Schiesel joined The New York Times in 1996 as business reporter, before moving on to a role as technology feature writer in 2003. He specialised in video games for the newspaper s Culture section from 2005. Prior to joining The New York Times, Schiesel was an editorial writer for The Boston Globe.
Here are the highlights from the recent industry hires and moves, as published in MCV/DEVELOP’s March issue.
We start this month’s roundup of job movers at Curve Digital, where the publisher has announced three new hires.
First,
Jarvis Crofts joins as VP of commercial and publishing strategy. Crofts was previously at Sega Europe, where he had spent the past nine years working as director of commercial analysis.
Also at Curve Digital,
James Gourlay joins as director of digital strategy. Like Crofts, Gourlay also joins Curve Digital from Sega Europe. Gourlay had held a number of roles at Sega, having joined in 2011 as a QA functional lead, before being promoted through the ranks to become senior product launch manager in 2018.
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