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Big Fish Games hires ex-PopCap finance chief as CFO

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Casual gamemaker Big Fish Games has recruited a new chief financial officer, Robert Chamberlain, from publisher Electronic Arts’ PopCap Games division.

That move may raise some eyebrows as companies bring aboard CFOs when they are on the verge of big changes, like selling the company or going public. But Big Fish Games’ boss said that the company was overdue to hire a replacement finance chief.

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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.