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Gree’s Andrew Sheppard is placing his bets to take original mobile games higher

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Andrew Sheppard left mobile game publisher Kabam last August after five years overseeing its worldwide studios. He then took a post as chief operating officer at Gree International, the overseas arm of Japanese mobile gaming company that had revenues last year over $1 billion.

Now Sheppard has stepped up to the CEO job at Gree International, which means he runs the 350-person operations of Gree in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. He has taken on the responsibility of running product development, marketing, and publishing in these key markets from Gree’s office in San Francisco.

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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.