Former Epic Games Exec Mike Seavers Joins Yuga Labs as CTO

Printed: 28 April 2023, 12:40 pm Up to date: 28 Apr 2023, 12:40 pm

Yuga Labs has introduced that sport trade veteran Mike Seavers might be beginning a brand new function on the firm on Could 22 as Chief Know-how Officer. He might be taking on the function from Yuga Labs’ present CTO and co-founder Kerem Atalay, who will stay with the corporate as an in depth strategic advisor.

Seavers joins Yuga Labs from Epic Video games, the place he served because the Government Vice President of Growth and led the product improvement throughout Unreal Engine, On-line Companies, Epic Video games Retailer, Fortnite Engineering, Infrastructure, Information, Safety, and QA. 

Earlier than working at Epic Video games in 2021, Seavers held varied management roles at Riot Video games, which culminated in a CTO function from 2017 till 2020, throughout which he immediately led the corporate’s engineering, product, manufacturing, safety, IT, and QA departments. At Riot Video games, he additionally offered technical management to help “League of Legends”, “Valorant”, “Legends of Runeterra”, and extra.

In addition to his expertise in gaming, Seavers was a challenge supervisor and software program engineer at firms like Mastercard and AT&T in the course of the earlier years of his profession. Yuga Labs employed him for his confirmed observe document in pushing organizations to the following stage of development.

“Now we have a chance to be the web3 platform on the forefront of neighborhood and social engagement, by means of media and leisure, and Mike’s experience will assist us scale to realize that,” stated Daniel Alegre, CEO of Yuga Labs. “I’m additionally delighted that Yuga Labs will proceed to learn from Kerem’s revolutionary considering and technical experience. He has been instrumental in constructing our firm and neighborhood into what it’s in the present day.”

Yuga Labs has been making new hires throughout web2 and web3 as the corporate continues to place storytelling, experiences, and neighborhood on the forefront of its choices. Earlier than becoming a member of Yuga Labs as CEO final December, Alegre was the President and COO at Activision. The corporate has additionally employed people from Google, Oculus, Twitter, Apple, Dune Video games, Monolith Gaming, WB Gaming, Microsoft, Coinbase, and American Specific.

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