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Robot car toy maker Anki hires Skylanders and EA veterans as key executives

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Anki has hired two new executives with loads of gaming experience to take its car-battle racing games to the next level.

San Francisco-based Anki has hired Joby Otero, the former creative director for Activision’s Skylanders franchise, as its chief creative officer. And it has hired Craig Rechenmacher, an Electronic Arts veteran, as its chief marketing officer. With the new hires, Anki is strengthening its gaming foundation and creative vision to bring a completely new dynamic to the interactive toy sector.

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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.