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The CEO of RuneScape developer Jagex Phil Mansell has stepped down from his position on the UK studio after eight years.
He’s been changed within the high position by former Huuuge Video games chief industrial officer Jon Bellamy. He has served as a board member on the Cambridge developer since October 2024.
Mansell, who has been with the studio for 14 years, will stay with the corporate for a time frame to assist with a clean transition.
The information comes a yr after Jagex modified fingers once more in February 2024 when it was acquired by an funding consortium comprised of CVC Capital Companions Fund VIII and Haveli Investments.
Bellamy has served as an advisor for CVC since 2023. He has labored as an advisor for quite a lot of corporations together with Kohort and Pixion Video games and was beforehand a enterprise capitalist at London Enterprise Companions.
He additionally has expertise at Jagex, the place he labored in technique and M&A between 2015 and 2018.
Change of fingers
“After an unimaginable 14 years main RuneScape and eight years as Jagex’s CEO, I am stepping again and handing over the baton to Jon Bellamy,” stated Mansell.
“Working alongside such a gifted and passionate staff, we have considerably grown the corporate and participant group, cementing Jagex as an innovator in community-driven video games and real chief on this trade.
“As the corporate embarks on its subsequent chapter, I’m delighted to be handing over to a frontrunner who I do know cares about our video games and enterprise as a lot as I do – and I stay up for supporting him as he builds upon the robust foundations we’ve created.”
Bellamy added: “It’s an amazing honour to imagine the management of Jagex and to assist steward a sport franchise meaning a lot to so many hundreds of thousands, myself included.
“I’m additionally excited to get to work with the excellent staff, whom I do know properly from my time on the board, to make sure our video games proceed to be the most effective on this planet. I plan to spend a while now with the staff, reviewing our ambitions for Jagex, and plan to speak my broader imaginative and prescient to the RuneScape group within the near-term.”
