{"id":120054,"date":"2020-10-27T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/372611"},"modified":"2020-10-27T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:56:00","slug":"starbreeze-ceo-mikael-nermark-resigns-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/27\/starbreeze-ceo-mikael-nermark-resigns-with-immediate-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbreeze CEO Mikael Nermark resigns with immediate effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mikael Nermark has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starbreeze.com\/2020\/10\/starbreeze-mikael-nermark-resigns-as-ceo-due-to-personal-reasons\/\">resigned as CEO of <em>Payday 2<\/em>&nbsp;developer Starbreeze<\/a> with immediate effect due to personal reasons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Starbreeze board of directors has named Tobias Sjogren as acting CEO following Nermark&#8217;s departure, but has already begun searching for a permanent successor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sjogren has plenty of industry pedigree, having previously served as studio manager at DICE Stockholm and EVP of business development at Paradox Interactive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starbreeze chairman Torgny Hellstrom thanked Nermark for his years of service, with the long-time exec having recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/355304\/Starbreeze_exits_reconstruction_looks_toward_continued_Payday_development.php\">steered the nearly-defunct company though a reconstruction period<\/a> that saw it refocus its business in a bid to stay afloat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mikael Nermark has resigned as CEO of Payday 2&nbsp;developer Starbreeze with immediate effect due to personal reasons.&nbsp; The Starbreeze board of directors has named Tobias Sjogren as acting CEO following Nermark&#8217;s departure, but has already begun searching for a permanent successor.&nbsp; Sjogren has plenty of industry pedigree, having previously served as studio manager at DICE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120054","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\/120054","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=120054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}