Activision Blizzard exec leaves to join Bored Ape NFT creators Yuga Labs Daniel Algere\/Bored ApeActivision Blizzard COO Daniel Alegre announced he\u2019s stepping down to join Yuga Labs in 2023, home of popular Bored Ape and CryptoPunk NFTs. Daniel Alegre\u2019s run as both the President and Chief Operating Officer of Activision Blizzard is coming to an end. Alegre announced that at the end of Q1 2023, he\u2019ll be stepping down from the company he\u2019s worked at for only two years. After stepping down from ActiBlizz, he\u2019ll be joining the world of Web3 as the head of Yuga Labs. Activision COO stepping down for NFT company Alegre will serve as the CEO of Yuga Labs, which is the parent company of Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks NFTs. In his announcement, Alegre said:\u201d I am very proud of the exceptional work and dedication the teams at Activision, Blizzard, and King have brought to our world\u2019s players over my three years here at the company.\u201d In Yuga\u2019s own announcement, the company praised him as a \u201cseasoned, visionary executive who shares our passion for innovation and creativity,\u201d and lauded his \u201cvast experience scaling media and gaming companies.\u201d Specifically, Yuga pointed to the company\u2019s success with games like World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, and Call of Duty. Alegre will almost certainly exit the company ahead of its acquisition by Microsoft, which still has no official date. With the loss of its COO and impending absorption into Microsoft\u2019s ecosystem, Activision Blizzard continues to be a company in major flux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Activision Blizzard exec leaves to join Bored Ape NFT creators Yuga Labs Daniel Algere\/Bored ApeActivision Blizzard COO Daniel Alegre announced he\u2019s stepping down to join Yuga Labs in 2023, home of popular Bored Ape and CryptoPunk NFTs. Daniel Alegre\u2019s run as both the President and Chief Operating Officer of Activision Blizzard is coming to an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}