Mobile social game publisher Kabam beefs up with new hires

Kabam, a mobile social game publisher that is on its path to an initial public offering, has hired three new executives as it continues its global expansion.

The new hires include Paxton Cooper, senior vice president for platform; Doug Inamine, senior vice president of human resources, and Jordan Edelstein, vice president of marketing for Kabam Studios.

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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.