Riot Games Promotes Naz Aletaha to Head of ‘League of Legends’ Esports – The Hollywood Reporter

Riot Video games has promoted Naz Aletaha, the corporate’s head of world esports partnerships and enterprise improvement, to steer its League of Legends esports division.

As the worldwide head of League of Legends esports, Aletaha will oversee the 12 regional leagues and its worldwide occasions, together with the League of Legends World Championship, which started on Tuesday morning.

“Naz’s affect at Riot Video games has been spectacular for a decade, with eight of these years driving the esports enterprise improvement efforts as a member of our management workforce,” John Needham, Riot Video games’ international head of esports, stated in an announcement. “Her tireless efforts, enterprise acumen, and fervour for our sport, followers, companions, and gamers makes her the proper match to steer us into the following decade of LoL Esports.”

Aletaha, who can also be the chief producer on an upcoming Paramount+ scripted comedy sequence a few fictional League of Legends esports workforce, may also work with sponsors, workforce homeowners and different media companions in her new function.

“LoL Esports was constructed from the eagerness of many. From Rioters to the professional groups to our companions and most significantly our followers, our neighborhood took a daring imaginative and prescient and made it a actuality: to construct a world sport. I’m honored to have been a part of this neighborhood these a few years,” Aletaha stated. “That is the way forward for sport, and I’m thrilled for the chance to play a job in that future.”