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Peter Moore Becomes EA's Chief Operating Officer
Electronic Arts executive leadership gets restructured for the first time since 2007.
On the company’s new blog, EA’s CEO John Riccitiello reiterated the companies focues on making fewer, better, and bigger games and then announced that a few executives would be moving up in the company. The shakeup is as follows.
- Peter Moore is now the Chief Operating Officer of the company, a role vacated by John Schappert in April
- Current EA Games label boss Frank Gibeau will serve as President of all the EA labels
- Bioware will become the fourth EA label, joining EA Games (DICE, Visceral, Criterion, EA Partners, etc.), EA Sports (Madden, FIFA, Fight Night) and EA Play (Maxis, The Sims, MySims)
- Barry Cottle moves from executive VP to of EA Interactive to heading the division, which now includes Playfish, Pogo, EA Mobile, EA's partnership with Hasbro, Asian mobile and online games and PopCap
That’s about it. This news probably won’t effect your world too much, but it’s always nice to hear about a company restructuring that doesn’t follow a mass firing or a lawsuit.
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