{"id":116211,"date":"2020-07-31T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/367345"},"modified":"2020-07-31T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:03:00","slug":"sega-group-president-and-chief-publishing-officer-kenji-matsubara-has-resigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/sega-group-president-and-chief-publishing-officer-kenji-matsubara-has-resigned\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega Group president and chief publishing officer Kenji Matsubara has resigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sega Group Corporation&nbsp;president and chief publishing officer Kenji Matsubara has stepped down due to &#8220;personal reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company broke the news in a <a href=\"http:\/\/fs.magicalir.net\/tdnet\/2020\/6460\/20200731471974.pdf\">short press release<\/a>, where it explained that Matsubara&#8217;s request for resignation has been received and accepted with immediate effect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Matsubara has held a number of roles at Sega, initially serving as the CTO of the company&#8217;s networks division before being appointed president and COO of Sega Games in 2017.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was named president and chief publishing in April 2020, but has now stepped down just four months later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sega Group Corporation&nbsp;president and chief publishing officer Kenji Matsubara has stepped down due to &#8220;personal reasons.&#8221; The company broke the news in a short press release, where it explained that Matsubara&#8217;s request for resignation has been received and accepted with immediate effect.&nbsp; Matsubara has held a number of roles at Sega, initially serving as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116211","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=116211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}