Nintendo mends wounds, hires new execs to replace old, ditchy ones

No company can stop employee turnover (especially when it bifurcates its US operations and expects everyone to uproot their families just to be closer to press it'd really rather ignore), but at least Nintendo's got a game plan to start bandage its wounds from executives lost in the rapid-fire departure of Harrison, Llewelyn, and Kaplan. Next up to bat: the company's new EVP of sales and marketing, Cammie Dunaway, and EVP, special assignment, Shigeyuki Takahashi. (Seriously, that's his job title, not the name of the next Phoenix Wright game.) They'll get going on November 5th and 1st, respectively, with Dunaway hard charging to get consoles and games into the hands of the Nintendo-uninitiated, and Takahashi conducting "special research activities and providing perspective to the sales and marketing department" (read: playing Xbox all day).

[hn333 @ Oct 25th 2007 3:14AM]

I hope she make good video games.

[FrankTheCrank @ Oct 25th 2007 9:05AM]

I dig chicks with glasses. She's a friggin hotty.

She would so rock my world!

[nxtiak @ Oct 25th 2007 3:16AM]

I'd hit that.

[someone @ Oct 25th 2007 8:42AM]

evpilf

[AJ @ Oct 25th 2007 3:01PM]

Yeah, me too. She looks more feminine than Kaplan.

[p-diddy @ Oct 25th 2007 3:58AM]

good use of "bifurcate."

-p-

[john doe @ Oct 25th 2007 4:07AM]

i wish i got payed to play xbox all day.

[AA @ Oct 25th 2007 5:01AM]

You will not be enjoying playing xbox (or even better, Wii) for a company -working at a similar position as these guys do- when your head is on the line like them. They want results and they want it "yesterday"

[BodegaBay @ Oct 25th 2007 6:20AM]

Cammie Dunaway...ahhh that's where the former Yahoo! Chief Marketing Officer went to. Good move considering Yahoo's current status.

[Japinator @ Oct 25th 2007 7:46AM]

"...just to be closer to press it'd really rather ignore"


WTF does that mean... specifically "it'd"

[SHOTT3R @ Oct 25th 2007 10:55AM]

First time I read that, I didn't read "ditchy"

[AJ @ Oct 25th 2007 2:58PM]

LOL. I´m sure the old ones "ditched" a lot when the were told to move or resign their positions.