Akamon Entertainment, the leading social gaming company specialising in traditional games in southern Europe and Latin America, has recruited seven new professionals to strengthen its development, analytics and mobile departments. These additions will permit Akamon to launch its first games for mobile devices at the end of the first quarter of 2013.

1. Akamon redoubles its commitment to
Mobile Games with the recruitment of
7 professionals in the areas of
development, analytics and mobile
The company is developing its first mobile applications in order to offer its
social games on mobiles and tablets
Barcelona, 24th January 2013 – Akamon Entertainment, the leading social gaming company
specialising in traditional games in southern Europe and Latin America, has recruited seven new
professionals to strengthen its development, analytics and mobile departments. These additions
will permit Akamon to launch its first games for mobile devices at the end of the first quarter of
2013.
Development and Mobile are the areas to have been most reinforced with the recruitment of
Emiliano Córdoba as Mobile Project Manager, Pedro Torres as Mobile programmer and Sergio
García and Xavier Heras as Designer and Developer respectively for Bingo – all based in
Barcelona. In the Valencia office, José Navarro joins the Traditional games team as Traditional
Game Artist and Victor Manuel Boliches is Flash games designer.
Marketing is also strengthened with Phil Delude being taken on as Head of RAI (Revenue,
Analytics and Information). Reporting to the Director of Marketing, Delude “will be responsible
for consolidating Akamon’s commitment to strict data analysis forming the basis for marketing
campaigns, and to ensure that Akamon is a data-driven company” explains Vicenç Martí, CEO at
Akamon.
Akamon plans to recruit up to 25 professionals during the course of 2013. The majority of these
will join the company in the first quarter to respond specifically to the company’s main
challenge of developing and marketing its first games for mobile devices. Akamon forecasts the
launch of its first game for tablets and mobiles in the first quarter of 2013.
Alaitz Blanquer, new HR Manager at Akamon, highlights the fact that “the company has been
growing at an annual rate of more than 50 percent in the current economic climate, generating

2. quality employment with the recruitment of specialised talent from leading companies in the
online field and the booming sector of social games”.
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About Akamon
Akamon Entertainment is an online social gaming company specialising in traditional games,
operating in the south of Europe and Latin America via local portals, those of partners that are
leaders in the online field and Facebook. The company, which has its own development team
and offices in Barcelona and Valencia, has been recognised by the consultants Great Place To
Work for being one of the 10 best companies to work for in Spain in 2012, in the small and
medium Spanish enterprises category.
Akamon’s extensive portfolio consists of casino and local traditional games, such as Tute, Tarot,
Roulette, Parchís, Poker and Dominoes. All the games incorporate social features and give
players the opportunity to be part of a global gaming community of nine million users, whereby
they are online together and share their gaming experience, whether it be via Akamon’s
international portals, those of its partners or Facebook.
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For more information, visit http://akamon.com or contact:
Georgina Rifé i Domènech – 902 999 343
georgina.rife@akamon.com / Twitter: @AkamonEnt