News Sony Interactive Entertainment restructures leadership roles

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• The following appointments will join Jim Ryan, Representative Director, President, and CEO in the Board of Directors of SIE Tokyo. Masayasu Ito is appointed Representative Director and Deputy President (He was also Development Director of the original PSVR), Lin Tao is appointed Director and Deputy President, and Takeshi Shibata is appointed Director.
• John (Tsuyoshi) Kodera who was previously SIE CEO and now Deputy Officer and was in charge of the creation of PSN will move to Sony Group and leave SIE
• Hideaki Nishino is getting promoted to SVP, Platform Experience and will oversee Network Engineering and Operations, R&D, Design, Data Strategy and Operations in addition to having previously led managing Product and Platform development. He has previously led Platform Planning and Management and was involved with a lot of the major news from SIE in the last year including the new PSVR as can be seen here Hideaki Nishino
• Michael Pattison, currently VP, Global Third-Party Relations, is promoted to SVP, Platform Planning and Management. According to the press release he " has been instrumental in building our current strong portfolio of business partnerships on PS4 and PS5 and has been a strong advocate for the Indie development community."

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