Yesterday GameTap announced that it was making two new additions to it's manager-level crowd. Their names are Adam Naide and Cameron Payne. Payne was previously employed as global group product manager of First Party Games for Microsoft, where he was involved with the well known Microsoft released games as [i]Halo[/i], [i]Fable[/i] and the [i]Microsoft Flight Simulator[[/i]franchise and was involved in the launch of [i]Halo 2[/i]. Naide has much experience with the broadband industry as he has worked for BellSouth, EarthLink, and Cox Communications.

Naide will be the new director of Relationship Marketing at GameTap while Payne will hold the job of product management and will be based in Atlanta. Stu Synder, the general manager of Game Tap, offered these words about the appointment of Naide and Payne to GameTap: "Adam and Cameron are great additions to the GameTap teamand we are excited about the value they will bring," Synder said."Adam's expertise in subscriber marketing will add valuable strength to GameTap's already solid staff, and Cameron's previous game-launching experience is the type of large-scale campaign leadership that is essential in today's gaming world. We are excited to welcome both Adam and Cameron to GameTap."

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Nick McCavitt at nmccavitt@forumwizard.net