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| PopCap Games Hires Ben Rotholtz as VP of Marketing PopCap Games has hired Ben Rotholtz to the newly-created position of Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Rotholtz comes to PopCap after nearly a decade as a general manager in, and of, several business units at RealNetworks, most recently Real's online music service Rhapsody. As the first senior marketing executive at PopCap, Mr. Rotholtz will guide PopCap's rapidly expanding Web site, advertising, public relations, marketing and promotional efforts while reporting to CEO David Roberts. His tenure with PopCap begins today. Mr. Rotholtz' nine-year tenure at RealNetworks included lengthy stints as GM of Products and Systems and GM of Business Affairs prior to the role of GM of Web Services and Syndication for Real's Rhapsody division in early 2006. All of these positions included responsibility for marketing and public relations within those respective groups. Previously, Mr. Rotholtz held a number of technical and product marketing positions at Aldus Corporation, primarily serving as the senior marketing executive overseeing Aldus' flagship product, PageMaker. Following the acquisition of Aldus by Adobe in 1994, Mr. Rotholtz served as Senior Product Marketing Manager for the PageMaker and InDesign lines of desktop publishing software. Mr. Rotholtz is one of the named inventors on a patent related to digitally transmitting video content and also on eight additional pending patents. He began his educational career at Reed College and received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English from the University of Washington. Mr. Rotholtz lives in the Seattle area with his wife and children. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Game News :: home page |