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Activision Blizzard plans to fire its chief financial officer; Netflix may hire him (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Activision Blizzard fell nearly 1 percent in after-hours trading today as the company filed a regulatory announcement saying that it plans to fire Spencer Neumann, the company’s chief financial officer. Activision Blizzard, the parent company whose divisions make the popular Overwatch and Call of Duty video games, did not specify the reason for the expected firing.

Such moves are rare, but they tend to affect stock prices, as any change in a company’s financial leadership is often cause for concern among investors.

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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.