Tommy Palm


Tommy Palm is a Swedish entrepreneur and game designer. He is currently the CEO of Resolution Games and one of the people behind Candy Crush Saga.

Background

Palm first learned to program games for the Commodore 64 home computer in 1986 with Martin Vilcans.

Career

In early 2015 Palm officially launched his Resolution Games virtual reality gaming studio and became the CEO. The new business is based in Stockholm and currently employs three – Palm, Martin Vilcans and Carl-Arvid Ewerbring. This is the fifth company that Palm has helped to set up. Prior to this, Palm was the spokesperson and games guru for King. It went public at $6 billion on the strength of their success with Candy Crush Saga. Prior to this, he was the founder of the mobile game maker Fabrication Games. He also founded Jadestone, the Game Trail, and the Swedish game accelerator Stugan.