Following the retirement of former CEO Jim Ryan, Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that a pair of Playstation execs will serve as his replacements going forwards. As of June 1, Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino will step up into new roles that’ll fill the departed exec’s boots.
If you’re out of the loop, Ryan stepped down from his CEO position at the end of March, not long after PlayStation laid off 900 people and closed London Studio as part of those cutbacks – though the exec had already revealed he’d be departing his post back in September last year. The occasion of Ryan’s retirement was celebrated via a collectable digital bobblehead of him you could grab through the PlayStation Stars program, in case you were wondering.
Now, as announced via an SIE press release, Nishino and Hulst have been officially revealed as his replacements, with the former stepping up into the role of CEO of SIE’s Platform Business Group, while the latter becomes CEO of SIE’s Studio Business Group. So, that’s Nishino in charge of things like hardware, PSN and Playstation’s third-party relationships, while Hulst will be in charge of PlayStation’s first-party dev teams and helping organise TV and Film adaptations of the console maker’s games.
