Owen Mahoney, CEO of game company Nexon.
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Asian gaming giant Nexon announces Owen Mahoney as successor to CEO

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Don’t look now, but a foreign guy will become the boss at one of Asia’s biggest game companies. Free-to-play online gaming giant Nexon has announced Owen Mahoney’s appointment as the successor for the top executive post at Nexon.

nexon-2The move shows how important knowledge of Western markets has become to Nexon, which has designs on becoming a global gaming company with major hits in all regional markets.

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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.