44. Interview with Stephane Kurgan: From Candy Crush to a $5.9 billion cash out

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Welcome to the first in a series of interviews with European tech leaders brought to you in association with Boardwave. The Boardwave network is a powerful community of Founders, CEOs, Chairs, Independent NEDs & their Investors from across Europe, representing companies at every stage of development.

This week, we are joined by Boardwave member Stephane Kurgan. A man of many accomplishments in the IT and associated investment industries, Stephane is best known for being the COO of European Category leader, King Digital Entertainment. During Stephane’s tenure, King made social gaming their own, listing on NASDAQ and growing to become a multi-billion dollar turnover organisation before an eventual $5.9 bn exit to Activision Blizzard in 2015.

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