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Remedy Makes Changes to Core Management Team, Wants to Grow Alan Wake and Control into Larger Franchises
25.04.2024 - 09:53 / wccftech.com / Sam Lake / Alan Wake / Alessio Palumbo / Tero Virtala
This morning, Finnish game developer Remedy Entertainment announced a couple of key changes to its core management team. First and foremost, Chief Operations Officer Christopher Schmitz has resigned and will leave the company on May 31.
Secondly, Mikael Kasurinen has been promoted to Creative Director, sharing responsibilities in this role with Sami Järvi, more commonly known as Sam Lake. Kasurinen also joins the Remedy core management team.
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CEO Tero Virtala said in a statement:
Christopher Schmitz has had various responsibilities during the past five years, with which he has helped in building the foundations of our multi-project model, and developing game project leadership, as well as selected support functions. I want to warmly thank him and wish him all the best in his next endeavors.
I welcome Mikael Kasurinen to our Core Management Team. He is a highly respected, experienced, and accomplished creative leader. Kasurinen and Järvi have worked together in a number of games, and they have complementary world-class skills. With this arrangement, we can ensure the needed focus on growing Alan Wake and Control into larger franchises, and the right type of creative guidance and support that all our game teams can benefit from.
Kasurinen has been in Remedy for a long time now. He first joined the Finnish studio in 2001 and left in 2010, only to return in 2014. He worked as a Level Designer on Max Payne 2, as Lead Game Designer on Alan Wake, and as Game Director on Control. He's keeping the same position for the sequel, which is currently in the proof of concept stage, although Remedy was confident as recently as last month that it would soon progress to the next stage of development.
Here's the updated Remedy core management team following today's changes:
- Tero Virtala, Chief Executive Officer
- Markus Mäki, Chief Product Officer
- Sami Järvi, Creative Director
- Mikael Kasurinen, Creative Director
- Terhi Kauppi, Chief Financial Officer
- Johannes Paloheimo, Chief Commercial Officer
- Mika Vehkala, Chief Technology Officer
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