{"id":116153,"date":"2020-07-31T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/segas_president_has_just_resigned_for_personal_reasons"},"modified":"2020-07-31T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:45:00","slug":"segas-president-has-just-resigned-for-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/segas-president-has-just-resigned-for-personal-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega&#8217;s President Has Just Resigned For &#8220;Personal Reasons&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c3bf926d133ba\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c3bf926d133ba\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Kenji Matsubara had been in charge since 2017<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/794\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Damo\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Damo\">Damien McFerran<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <span>20 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Sega\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c3bf926d133ba\/sega.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c3bf926d133ba\/sega.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"422\" alt=\"Sega\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Sega&#8217;s parent company Sega Sammy Holdings has <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/fs.magicalir.net\/tdnet\/2020\/6460\/20200731471974.pdf\">revealed<\/a> that its president and chief publishing officer Kenji Matsubara has resigned from the firm due to &#8220;personal reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Sega, Matsubara had been CEO of Koei Tecmo for 9 years; he later joined the Japanese arm of Zynga, which is famous for its casual games.<\/p>\n<p>He became Sega Networks Company&#8217;s chief technology officer in 2014 and moved to the position of Sega&#8217;s president in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: http:\/\/fs.magicalir.net\/tdnet\/2020\/6460\/20200731471974.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/fs.magicalir.net\/tdnet\/2020\/6460\/20200731471974.pdf\">fs.magicalir.net<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2020-08-01T09:26:24+01:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenji Matsubara had been in charge since 2017 by Damien McFerran 20 hours ago Sega&#8217;s parent company Sega Sammy Holdings has revealed that its president and chief publishing officer Kenji Matsubara has resigned from the firm due to &#8220;personal reasons.&#8221; Prior to joining Sega, Matsubara had been CEO of Koei Tecmo for 9 years; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}