Björn Jeffery Resigns as CEO of Toca Boca

After co-founding Toca Boca seven years ago, Björn Jeffery is stepping down as CEO of the children’s app maker, effective immediately, to spend more time with his family and figure out the next step in his career path.

Over the next few weeks, Jeffery will work with the management team to help ease the transition resulting from his resignation. “We will also change our governance structure slightly in order to align with Spin Master, which does not have individual CEOs for their subsidiaries,” he said in a statement on the Toca Boca website. “This means while Ronnen Harary, co-CEO of Spin Master, will formally be the CEO of Toca Boca, COO Caroline Ingeborn and co-founder Emil Ovemar will lead and run the business and day-to-day operations together with the rest of Toca Boca’s management team.”

“This is a good time for transition—Toca Boca has never done better,” Jeffery noted. “Our app sales are at an all-time high, we just launched our first consumer-products program at Target, and we have several new product releases planned for the coming few months. We have also successfully integrated with Spin Master, our new corporate parent. All in all, we’re in a great place, and I feel very confident this is only the beginning of the Toca Boca story.”