GAME Digital plc announced the strengthening of the senior management team at Multiplay with the appointments of Andy Smith as Director of The Insomnia Gaming Festival, and Paul Manuel as Director of Digital. Andy Smith joins with major experience in events, having recently spearheaded the sales and management of conferences, events, catering, hotels and match day experiences for Ricoh Arena. As Director of Digital Business, Paul Manuel will oversee the continued growth of its enterprise and consumer hosting division, powered by ClanForge, providing server management tools to empower both gamers and publishers.

Paul joins following a period as Consultant Program Manager for PEER 1 hosting, where he launched new toolsets using cloud based offerings and oversaw the migration of over 600 clients to more efficient solutions.