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Visionary Awards honor Microsoft’s Sarah Bond and Arkane’s Dinga Bakaba

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Two leaders who are making a difference in outstanding gameplay, diversity, and gaming as a business are the winners of this year’s Visionary Award and our Up and Comer Award at the GamesBeat Summit 2022 event.

This year, our committee of 10 industry judges honored Sarah Bond, corporate vice president at Microsoft and Dinga Bakaba, studio head at Arkane Lyon, a division of Bethesda, for our Visionary Award and Up and Comer Award, respectively.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.