Our next speaker for GamesBeat 2016: Warner Bros. games chief David Haddad

Our next speaker for our GamesBeat 2016 event is David Haddad, president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Haddad spoke last year at our inaugural GamesBeat Summit event, and we’re happy to have him back.

David Haddad is president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.
David Haddad is president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment.

Haddad was appointed to his current post in October 2015. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of WBIE’s overall operations, including publishing, operations, sales, marketing, digital/mobile games, business development, and game production.

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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.