{"id":37132,"date":"2018-08-01T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/sega_of_america_appoints_ian_curran_as_new_president"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:15:00","slug":"sega-of-america-appoints-ian-curran-as-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/sega-of-america-appoints-ian-curran-as-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega Of America Appoints Ian Curran As New President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/sega_of_america_appoints_ian_curran_as_new_president\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/sega_of_america_appoints_ian_curran_as_new_president\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Ian Curran\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/sega_of_america_appoints_ian_curran_as_new_coo_and_president\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/sega_of_america_appoints_ian_curran_as_new_coo_and_president\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Curran\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Sega of America has announced the appointment of Ian Curran as the company&#8217;s new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and President, effective from today.<\/p>\n<p>In this new role, Curran will be responsible for &#8220;utilising all resources available to maximise the profitability of the publishing and Sonic business units within the Americas and EMEA, serving also on the board of Atlus U.S.A., Inc&#8221;. He&#8217;ll be working alongside the current CEO of Sega West, Tatsuyuki Miyazaki, and will also work with employees in Sega&#8217;s offices located in Irvine, Burbank, and London.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about his new role, Curran has issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;My thanks and gratitude to Mr. Miyazaki and the entire company leadership for this opportunity to lead our operations and executions in the Americas and EMEA. I appreciate all of the incredible efforts Mr. Hiraoka has made to lay the groundwork for our operations in the Americas. Coming off the success of\u00a0<strong>Persona 5<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_forces\"><strong>Sonic Forces<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/sonic_mania_plus\"><strong>Sonic Mania Plus<\/strong><\/a>, and the <strong>Yakuza<\/strong> series, and with so much more on the horizon, including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/valkyria_chronicles_4\"><strong>Valkyria Chronicles 4<\/strong><\/a>, it is an incredible time to join the team. As part of the SEGA family, we are inheritors of an expansive body of work and opportunity which I plan to help reach its full potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Curran has decades of experience in the video game publishing world with previous roles at companies like THQ and Acclaim, most recently working at Gioteck, a gaming accessories designer and supplier. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if this new appointment has much of an impact on\u00a0Sega&#8217;s current operations, and how quickly any changes might take effect. Hopefully Sonic and co are in good hands!<\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like to see any big changes at Sega? Feel free to share your hopes and wishes for the company in the com<\/em><em>ments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sega of America has announced the appointment of Ian Curran as the company&#8217;s new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and President, effective from today. In this new role, Curran will be responsible for &#8220;utilising all resources available to maximise the profitability of the publishing and Sonic business units within the Americas and EMEA, serving also on [&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-37132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37132","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=37132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}