Nazara Tech ropes in Christopher Franklin to lead Nextwave Multimedia
Nazara Technologies has appointed industry veteran Christopher Franklin to lead its mobile gaming subsidiary Nextwave Multimedia as the diversified gaming and sports media firm looks to grow its freemium gaming business.
Franklin comes with over 20 years of experience in the gaming industry. He recently served as the game design director at the video game publisher Electronics Arts for about a year.
Prior to this, he has had stints at mobile game publisher Glu Mobile, video game developer Ludia, social casino gaming company GSN Games and mobile gaming company Mango Games.
Franklin is taking over as the CEO of Nextwave Multimedia from founder PR Rajendran, who will now serve as the company's board chairman, Nazara Technologies CEO Nitish Mittersain.
"The WCC franchise has huge potential compared to the revenues it generates today for us. So we brought in Chris, who comes with strong game design capabilities. We hope to revamp the game design from the way we are approaching it and significantly scale up this business. I think in the coming quarters, it will show up in our numbers as well" Mittersain said.
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