Kenny Rosenblatt and Jessica Rovello are the founders of Arkadium.
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Arkadium’s husband-wife cofounders swap the CEO job (exclusive)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Jessica Rovello and Kenny Rosenblatt founded casual-game company Arkadium 14 years ago. Now, they’re swapping jobs, with Rovello becoming the CEO and Rosenblatt taking the No. 2 job as president.

The change comes amid a chaotic time for Arkadium, which lost half of its studio in Russia — and a total of a third of its worldwide staff — due to geopolitical disruptions from the civil war in Ukraine. In an exclusive interview with GamesBeat, Rovello said that nothing major would change as she and her husband Rosenblatt have been co-leading Arkadium since 2001. But they both felt it was time for Rovello to take the reins.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.