In an announcement this morning the Square Enix Holdings group shared that Takashi Kiryu will succeed Yosuke Matsuda as Square Enix president and representative director pending a shareholders' vote to take place in June 2023. Matsuda, after a ten year stretch at the top, is stepping down and handing the reins over to the 47-year-old Kiryu.
A relative newcomer to the company, Kiryu first joined in June of 2022 as a general manager of the Corporate Planning Division, then became a charmain of the board at Square Enix China, before joining the board of directors in 2022. Square Enix states the proposed change is to reshape the management team with the goal of "Adopting everevolving technological innovations and maximizing on the creativity of the Company's group to deliver even greater entertainment to its customers around the world."
Matsuda's ten year run after previous CEO Yoichi Wada's departure is noted by bringing in partners and developing subsidiaries as well as expanding the different ways in which Square Enix games targeted global audiences. Taking the company from red to black took several years, and the development and launch of episodic games and smartphone service titles were in effort to foster further revenue growth.
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