Andrew Wilson Named As EA CEO

After a rigorous search that “included several talented executives from both outside the company and from within EA”, EA Sports head, Andrew Wilson, has been named as the new CEO for the company.

“He is a compelling and charismatic communicator who cares deeply about organizational development, teams, and the individual careers of people who work for EA,” said Larry Probst, EA Chairman, ” Most of all, he has a powerful sense of respect for and commitment to our consumers.”

Meanwhile Collette Kress, formerly of Microsoft and Cisco, has joined Nvidia as the new executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Over in Japan the troubled Index Corporation looks likely to become part of the Sega empire, and with it Atlus games, the publisher behind the Persona series. The deal is thought to worth around $140m and Sega will take ownership of the company in November.

Gabe Newell has reported rapid growth for Valve’s digital delivery platform, “Steam is going up 76% year-on-year while PCs are going through double-digit declines,” and Activision have announced sales of the Skylanders franchise have reached over $1.5 billion.

Your final business news of the day comes from the U.S.A. where Nintendo have signed up Deutsch LA, the advertising agency who created Sony’s popular Kevin Butler character.

Thus ends your round up of exciting business news, we will now return you to your regular programming of explosions, wizards, hookers, dragons, zombies, nazis and terrorists with very big guns.

Source: EA / VG247 / MCV / MCV / Adweek

7 Comments

  1. Will we ever see another Kevin Butler commercial ?

  2. An EA executive with a powerful sense of respect for the customers? I’ll believe it when I see it (maybe not even then!)

  3. $1.5 billion for Skylanders! That’s unfathomable. The power that kids have over the parents is reaching new highs… or lows?!

  4. “He is a compelling and charismatic communicator who cares deeply about organizational development, teams, and the individual careers of people who work for EA,” said Larry Probst, EA Chairman, ” Most of all, he has a powerful sense of respect for and commitment to our consumers.”

    LMAO, this sounds like they way you would describe someone for a blind date. Compelling and charismatic… next they’ll say he’s got a great personality. I’m sure his first act will be to lay-off some of those people who’s careers he cares so deeply for.
    When I think EA Sports I think about everything that is wrong with EA- server shutdowns, cosmetic changes, unnecessary DLC… saying that they’re promoting the guy from the worst EA division doesn’t create ANY hope for EAs future.

  5. EA’s sports franchises are definitely their strongest, so I can see why they’ve put him in charge, he clearly knows what he’s doing.

  6. I can see a future where the only people with dedicated desktop computers in their homes are pc gamers

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