Kent Wakeford, COO of Kabam
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Kabam names replacement for departing chief operating officer

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kabam said today that its chief operating officer Chris Carvalho will leave at the end of the year and will be replaced by Kent Wakeford, executive vice president and general counsel.

The new COO will be in charge of operations for a free-to-play mobile social game company that has more than 700 employees and expects to post more than $300 million in revenues this year.

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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.