Leo Olebe of Microsoft is the new chair of Games for Change.
Leo Olebe of Microsoft is the new chair of Games for Change.
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Leo Olebe assumes role as chair of Games for Change

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Games for Change said Leo Olebe will be the new chair of the board of directors for the nonprofit dedicated to social impact games and media.

Olebe will still be vice president of global partnerships at Xbox, for his day job. He succeeds Asi Burak, chief business officer at Tilting Point, who has served as chair for the past ten years and will continue to serve as a board member.

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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.