Kristian Segerstråle
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Kristian Segerstrale is the CEO and co-founder of Playfish, a social games company. Prior to Playfish Kristian served as Managing Director of Europe of Glu Mobile, and was a co-founder of Glu Mobile Europe (Macrospace Ltd) in 2001.
As Managing Director of Europe Kristian was responsible for the rapid growth of Glu's European business as well as being a contributor to the company's successful IPO in Q1 2007. During his 6-year tenure at Glu, Kristian was a driving force in the creation of more than 40 mobile titles including Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and the Ancient Empires series.
During his time at Glu Kristian was also responsible for forging relationships with key Glu brand partners including Konami, Celador, Codemasters and Cartoon Network. Kristian has been on the GDC Mobile advisory board since 2006 and was voted one of top-50 most influential executives in Mobile Entertainment in December 2006 in ME Magazine. He holds an MSc from London School of Economics and an MA (Cantab) in Economics from Cambridge University.
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| TMNT: Splintered Fate (2023, iPhone) | Studio Backoffice |
| Vainglory (2015, Android) | COO & Executive Director |
| MMX Racing (2014, iPhone) | Special Thanks To... |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 2 games with Taewon Yun
- 2 games with Tommy Krul
- 2 games with Edwin Bakker
- 2 games with Jérôme de Menou
- 2 games with Brett Harris
- 2 games with Oliver Smith
- 2 games with Qingshuo Wang
- 2 games with Patrick O'Callahan
- 2 games with George Liu
- 1 game with Garrett Moehring
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Companies
- 2 games with Super Evil Mega Corp, Inc.
- 1 game with Hutch Games Ltd
- 1 game with Trailerfarm Ltd., The
- 1 game with Ten24 Media Ltd
- 1 game with Tazman-Audio Ltd.
- 1 game with Player Research Ltd.
- 1 game with Lowrider Sound Ltd
- 1 game with Liquid Development, LLC
- 1 game with ViacomCBS Inc.
- 1 game with Google LLC
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