Markku Ignatius appointed as an acting CEO

[xxMATTGxx]

LaFontaine steps down. Markku Ignatius appointed as an acting CEO

Paul LaFontaine leaves the company at the turn of the year.

“We thank Paul for his leadership during the past year and wish him well for the future” said Mikael Rönnblad, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sulake Corporation.

“Markku Ignatius has been appointed as the acting CEO of the Company” stated Rönnblad. “Markku is an industry veteran with over 6 years experience in the management team of the company, so we trust that under his leadership the company will enjoy stable and smooth transitioning into the future” said Rönnblad.

“To me, the story of Habbo has always been a story about the Community” said Ignatius. “Our company’s strength and success derives from the strength and success of our Community. In the coming year we continue listening to our Community and learning from the Community. We will keep on both providing our users with the classic Habbo features so loved by our Community as well as continue developing new extensions to the Habbo experience, such as the recently launched Game Center and mobile application.” Ignatius stated.""

Source: http://www.sulake.com/press/releases...an-acting-ceo/

They have also updated their management page to reflect with the changes:

http://www.sulake.com/company/management/

[sex]

did he work at sulake before?
lol at the statement "the story of habbo has always been community" i doubt he said that

edit; he worked as legal

the new person should do a mass un-ban of all accounts, fresh start etc

[xxMATTGxx]

did he work at sulake before?
lol at the statement "the story of habbo has always been community" i doubt he said that

Yeah he's been at Sulake for a while. His previous role was EVP Legal & Corporate Communications according to LinkedIn.

[Andii]

Interesting I wonder if he will be good and not be a total noob like paul making stupid decisions and stupid ideas basically didn't do anything right

[Pigperson]

No idea how good he is so we'll see I only just realised how non-English the Sulake team are lololol.

Will

[Lewis]

If he's worked at habbo/sulake since 2006, he might actually know how to control habbo!

[Red]

I looked him up a couple of weeks ago. He looks nice and he doesn't use twitter woo.

[xxMATTGxx]

No idea how good he is so we'll see I only just realised how non-English the Sulake team are lololol.

Will

Well it is a Finnish company lmao.

[zombies]

Yay. We can only hope for the best.

[:Markster:]

I looked him up a couple of weeks ago. He looks nice and he doesn't use twitter woo.

Why'd that a good thing? That just means that we are in the dark about any updates and to be honest that's what Paul did well, he communicated with the community and kept us up to date, providing us with a person to contact about questions that the customer support just couldn't be bothered to answer... Just saying it's nice that, as the news are not yet reintroduced and the Habbo twitter only really talks about events that are going on and promotions and less actual communication with the community...