The creator of Angry Birds and the president of Rovio Mikael Hed (Mikael Hed) in January next year will give up his place to the former vice president of marketing of Nokia Pekka Rantala (Pekka Rantala).
There is no point in speculating on this topic. Mikael does not leave the company after five years of managing Rovio. Rather, he is going to be promoted. Kaj Hed, Mikael’s father, awarded his son a post on the board of directors of the Bird Corporation. Head Jr. also became chairman of the board of directors of Rovio Animation Studios, which plans to compete with the leaders of the three-dimensional animation market in the future.
As for Pekka, who spent the last three months at Rovio as a commercial director, he has a very decent resume. He started as the head of the export department at Nokia in 1994. He left the company in 2011 as vice president of marketing. He worked for two years in a management position at Fazer, then quite a bit at Hartwall, which is engaged in the production of alcoholic beverages. And now Pekka is in Rovio.
He will head the company only in January 2015.
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Rovio Entertainment Ltd.
or Rovio is a Finnish computer game developer. The company has been in existence since 2003. It first appeared on the market as a mobile game development studio Relude, in 2005 it was renamed Rovio. It is best known for the Angry Birds game franchise.