Owen Mahoney, CEO of Nexon
Owen Mahoney, CEO of Nexon
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Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney will step down in March and be replaced by Junghun Lee

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nexon announced a leadership succession plan where longtime CEO Owen Mahoney will step down in March 2024 and be replaced by Junghun Lee.

That’s a big milestone as Mahoney had been in charge of the online games giant for a decade. He led the company to expansion, despite the fact he was a Westerner in charge of a company with its headquarters in Japan and much of its development staff in South Korea.

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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.