Company aims for further growth, increase in corporate value
SNK announced on Thursday that it will appoint Kenji Matsubara as its chief executive officer (CEO) on August 1. With this appointment, the company is aiming for “further growth and an increase in corporate value.”
Matsubara was previously CPO, COO, and president of Sega Games, CEO and president of Zynga Japan, and representative director and president of KOEI Tecmo Holdings Co., Ltd.
SNK will release a new console in 2021.
SNK Corporation was founded in 1978, but the company filed for bankruptcy in 2001. SNK Playmore was founded in August 2001, and the company also developed pachinko slot machines and smartphone games aside from console games, but withdrew from the pachislot (pachinko parlor slot machine game) business in 2015. SNK Playmore then changed back its name to SNK Corporation in December…
