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Riot Games promotes David Mulhall to run esports partners and business development

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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David Mulhall, a seasoned sports sponsorship executive with Riot Games, has been promoted to global head of esports partnerships and business development.

Riot Games esports president John Needham announced that Mulhall will be charged with leading a global team dedicated to onboarding new world-class brands into Riot’s robust esports partnership portfolio, while also delivering unparalleled value to existing partners through Riot’s global and
regional events across League of Legends Esports (LoL Esports), the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT), and Teamfight Tactics Esports (TFT Esports).

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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.