Key executives to leave Nintendo?
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 7:33pm by David
According to a post on GameInformer, three key executives are set to leave Nintendo when the company moves its marketing group to San Francisco or New York. The article lists Senior Director of Public Relations Beth Llewelyn, Vice President, Marking and Corporate Affairs Perrin Kaplan, and Senior Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Communications George Harrison. This would be a major shakeup in the public facing side of Nintendo, but since no official confirmation has come from the company, I’m listing this as a rumor. Stay tuned to Infendo for more information as it becomes available.
Do you think these key executives are leaving Nintendo?
[Thanks for the tip, FnbyDstryr!]
June 6th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
w00t first
June 6th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
One word…. “BULLSH*T”
June 6th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
why?
June 6th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
They’re heading over to Sony.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Alas. I loved Perrin.
June 6th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Ok I undestand now. Since Nintendo is moving departments to New York and San Francisco, all these people decided to remain there, probably since all their friends and family (AND their houses!) are in that city, they rather get a pay check. I been there, and it is very difficult to leave your life and start a new one someplace else.But Whatever happens, all these people are getting new jobs pretty fast, maybe even the competitors might want to get their Nintendo insider info…
June 6th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
There might be some resentment since they’re all of a sudden so successful, and these 3 were around in darker times. I could see them feeling as though the challenges facing Nintendo now are a lot steeper. Either that or maybe they’re rich enough.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Is everyone forgetting the M$ is just across the street?
June 7th, 2007 at 5:28 am
I have a feeling this is true. Perrin Kaplan alluded to the possibility of herself leaving in her last interview with GI. She said it was a geographical thing. I wouldn’t pin too much on this though, after all it’s just typical business practice. It just seem like a big deal ‘cos we love Ninty and these people are the faces we know.
June 7th, 2007 at 7:34 am
I don’t think it will really make a big difference, Nintendo will have lots of talent looking to be a part of the company. And these guys can say that they helped launch the Wii and DS which should put them in a rahter nice position.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Wasn’t it announced that they were moving a while back? Why did they took this long to quit? I say fake.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:53 am
I don’t see why anyone would care…
June 7th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I think it is very likely… The Nintendo they “grew up” in is very different now, and I’m sure they have some heavy hitters applying for those jobs now…
June 7th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I hope Perrin trips on one of her scarfs and falls on her face on the way out and rolls down the stairs and a oddly placed woodchipper takes her and here horrid fasion style out.
The other two can go over to Sony so we can get bent.