{"id":65029,"date":"2018-11-26T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/331427"},"modified":"2018-11-26T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T22:21:00","slug":"leadership-shuffle-sees-igda-board-name-new-chair-and-vice-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/26\/leadership-shuffle-sees-igda-board-name-new-chair-and-vice-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership shuffle sees IGDA board name new chair and vice-chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.igda.org\/news\/428091\/IGDA-Appoints-New-Chair-Vice-Chair-of-Board-of-Directors-Press-Release.htm\">has selected<\/a> Vesa Raudasoja\u00a0(pictured) as the organization&#8217;s\u00a0new chair of its\u00a0board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>Announced earlier today, Raudasoja\u00a0will take over the\u00a0role of board chairman while former IGDA chairman David Seltzer remains on the board as chair emeritus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raudasoja previously served as the organization&#8217;s vice-chair, and\u00a0is also a game consultant and developer\u00a0based in Finland\u00a0who helped foster IGDA\u00a0Finland into a chapter with more than 1,700 members and 12 hubs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, current board member Emily Greer (co-founder and CEO of Kongregate) will fill the role of vice-chair.\u00a0Lucien Parsons continues\u00a0as treasurer and Renee Gittins\u00a0remains as secretary for the IGDA.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has selected Vesa Raudasoja\u00a0(pictured) as the organization&#8217;s\u00a0new chair of its\u00a0board of directors. Announced earlier today, Raudasoja\u00a0will take over the\u00a0role of board chairman while former IGDA chairman David Seltzer remains on the board as chair emeritus.\u00a0 Raudasoja previously served as the organization&#8217;s vice-chair, and\u00a0is also a game consultant and developer\u00a0based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}