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Hirai promoted to Chairman of SCEI, House becomes CEO

by JC Fletcher on Jun 29th 2011 9:30AM

Just one day after announcing a new board member, Sony revealed a bit more corporate shuffling, this time at Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Kazuo Hirai, formerly President and Group CEO (and chief apologizer), has been promoted to Chairman, effective September 1. SCEE president Andrew House will take over as Group CEO of SCEI, with SCEE Executive Vice President Jim Ryan taking over his old job at SCEE.

While this may seem like an inopportune time to reward executives with promotions, the shifts were prompted by the retirement of current Chairman Akira Sato effective August 31. Also retiring: Ken Kutaragi, who left his role as Honorary Chairman of SCEI yesterday, presumably finding the honorary demands of the position too honorarily strenuous. He will remain at Sony Corporation as "senior technology advisor."

Source: Sony

Tags: andrew-house, jim-ryan, kaz-hirai, ken-kutaragi, playstation, ps3, psp, scee, scei, sony

Reader Comments (27)

Hugh Laurie becomes CEO?

@Tihn
It's always lupus. Now get this man some pills!

@chocobox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOBNrAtIhRo

@Tihn

hopefully he rejoins stephen fry to help narrate LBP3

@Tihn

If there's one man that we can trust to diagnose and solve the problem, it's House.

It also explains why it took over a month to fix the PSN, and why there were several false starts.

Hell yeah!

http://youtu.be/5JWGccb1R0g

@ansalon929
Downvoted for Family Guy

What ever happened to all of those games that were supposed to come from Cellius?

Jack is still the king of press conferences.

Well congrats to Kaz and Andrew.

um....Congrats on sucking so much here is a promotion...awesome.

I love pity rewards.

@ChaseHammerJ Haters gonna hate.

@ChaseHammerJ

Jealous?

@themisanthrope

oh yes very much so. The money they are making sure but getting "promoted" to a position in the middle of one of the top 3 biggest customer information breaches absolutely not.

guess whose fault it becomes once this happens again (and its only time until another group wants news facetime)...sure isnt the guy that wanted to immediately retire.

@ChaseHammerJ
So we have to constantly stunt the future to bitch about the past?

RRIIIIIIIDDDDDGGGGGGEEE RACCCERRRR!!!

I miss Krazy Ken...

Guess Geohotz isn't the only one benefiting from the whole hacking fiasco. always thought the normal was break the law go to jail , cost your employer millions upon millions you get fired . guess that's not the way the world works for some folks .

:D,:D,:D,:D,:D

He told me my ps3 was an investment for the next 10+ years, it broke after 3-5 years. Considering warranty is offered on reasonable time and not the stamped 1 year. I think ill contact someone, he is afterall ceo.

Namco will be pleased their advertisement gimmick has eventually reached the top.

Kutaragi was still with Sony? I thought he got fired?

FUN FACT:
Kutaragi created the sound chip for the Super Nintendo.
And it was his idea to convince Sony to create the PlayStation on their own after the fallout with Nintendo.

@tendoboy1984
old story, bro

Lol! That's the first thing my dibilitating addicition drifted to on this page! So funny, so sad! Oh man....I am killing myself slowly. :).....:(

They should make Kevin Butler the new king...

Yeah, I know he is only an actor, but how bad could he be? At least we all like him...

So many uninformed observations in this article and thread about both the PSN outage and corporate management. You kids really need to spend a bit more time on the real world and a bit less time on tabloid internet sites ;).

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