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Nintendo hires two new executive VPs
Nintendo has announced two new executive vice presidents joining their new Silicon Valley offices. Cammie Dunaway -- former chief marketing officer for Yahoo! -- will take the position of executive vice president, sales and marketing, the position vacated by Reggie Fils-Aime when he was promoted to President and COO of Nintendo of America in April 2006. Shigeyuki Takahashi -- former president of Nintendo's North American business research team -- will take the position of executive vice president, special assignment. It's worth nothing that neither of these new hires are filling the exact roles recently vacated by Beth Llewelyn, George Harrison, and Perrin Kaplan, meaning either that Nintendo is still planning more hires, or restructuring those departments. Takahashi officially starts November 1, and Dunaway begins her new job on November 5.
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).
