Four months after hiring former Activision President and COO Daniel Alegre as its new CEO, Bored Ape Yacht Club and Otherside creator Yuga Labs is bringing on more game industry leaders to spearhead its unicorn startup. 

Yuga announced today that it has hired Mike Seavers, who previously worked at League of Legends developer Riot Games and Fortnite creator Epic Games, as its new Chief Technology Officer.

Current Yuga Labs CTO Kerem Atalay will step into an advisory role, according to an announcement, once Seavers begins at the company on May 22.

“There have been rare moments over my career where I felt like a new technology was creating a true paradigm shift for the world,” Seavers said in a statement. “I recognize that Web3 is one of those moments, and I am absolutely thrilled to join Yuga Labs to help usher in a new era of the internet that impacts the world for the better.”

(By Kate Irwin)