Rovio Stockholm boss departs for Spotify

Rovio's Stockholm general manager, Patrick Liu, has left the Angry Birds creator after four years to take up the mantle of senior product owner at music streaming giant, Spotify. 

Liu joined Rovio back in August 2012 as creative director, leaving his role at DICE after serving as producer on Battlefield 3. 

As reported by PocketGamer.biz, Rovio's former head of production Reginaldo Valadares will step up to replace Liu. 

"It’s time to pass the Rovio torch to the heavyweight industry studio executive Reginaldo Valadares, who has over 17 years of experience running game studios," Rovio EVP of games, Wilhelm Taht, told PG.biz.

"Reginaldo has stepped up as head of Stockholm studio two weeks ago already and is now scaling up the studio as we speak."