CAA Video Game Co-Head Jumps To UTA

EXCLUSIVE: Im hearing that CAAs top video game agent has just informed the tenpercentery that hes heading for rival UTA.Ophir Lupu is one of the video game industrys top agents and co-head of the video game department at Creative Artists Agency. He’ll head UTAs Video Games practice.Lupu represents leading developers in console gaming as well as in the fast-growing social, casual and mobile gaming sectors. Lupu was named co-head of CAAs video game department in May of this year. He has spent his entire career at CAA, which he joined in 2000 after graduating from George Washington University.At CAA, Lupu represented such industry leaders as Ken Levine (BioShock), Patrice Desilets(Assassins Creed), Warren Spector (Disneys Epic Mickey), Cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War), That Game Company (Flower), Crytek (Homefront 2), KleiEntertainment (Shank), Trapdoor, Inc. (Warp) and Tomonobu Itagakis Valhalla Studios (Devils Third), among others.Lupu earlier this year orchestrated the acquisition of client Area/Code by Zynga.