Riot adds senior leaders for VALORANT, creators and TFT esports

Riot Games has appointed Joe Lee as VALORANT Game Director and hired Mitchel Inkrott as Global Head of Influencer Strategy, both surfacing in October. Bryce Blum also took the role of Global Head of Teamfight Tactics Esports in the same stretch. Lee spent more than nine years at Riot, most recently as Senior Director of Product Management, while Inkrott joined from EA, where he worked on Battlefield and other first-person shooter franchises.