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Browser Game Publisher Bigpoint Appoints New Head of Human Resources

by admin posted Jan 10,2010

Hamburg, January 4, 2010 – Within the scope of its international expansion, the Hamburg-based online game publisher and developer Bigpoint is expanding its personnel department. Gitta Blatt, 45, joined the Bigpoint team as Head of Human Resources on January 1, 2010.

In this newly created position, the native Hamburger is in charge of the entire personnel department. Mrs. Blatt is responsible for strategic personnel and organizational development, international recruiting, (up to and including management-level positions), and career and salary management. Her responsibilities also include the areas of employee compensation and benefits. She works closely with the management and will lend her support in all employee and labor law issues. She reports directly to Michael Gutsmann, CFO of Bigpoint GmbH.

Prior to Bigpoint, the business and communication studies graduate was a partner at kwp, a consulting and personnel agency. Blatt’s main duties there were organizational consulting and management recruiting in the media and Internet sectors. She was also in charge of HR projects. An earlier step in her career was at AOL Germany, where she served in different capacities, eventually leading the Internet giant’s entire personnel department. Her responsibilities were varied, ranging from change management, through the execution of reorganization measures, to the development of AOL’s personnel strategy and headhunting on an international level. From 2005 on, she worked with the management team, as of 2007 at the European headquarters. Before her 9-year stint at AOL, the 45-year-old was the manager of premium products for the TV station Premiere and the authorized signatory for Heinicke, an international retailer in the sportswear branch.

“By hiring Gitta Blatt, we’ve secured a very experienced personnel director for our company” says Michael Gutsmann, CFO at Bigpoint. “Her many years of experience and international responsibilities in the online and media sectors as well as her rich background are ideal qualifications for the position. We are certain that Gitta Blatt will prove extremely helpful to us in many areas, including filling the 100 open positions.”

“The online-games branch is very exciting to me, especially because of the fact that this market continues to grow in leaps and bounds. I am happy to become a member of the strong Bigpoint community – the employees here are just like the games they create: full of

Gitta Blatt is now responsible for personnel development and recruiting for browser game specialist Bigpoint
Personnel Director to fill over 100 open positions

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