Toshihiro Nagoshi promoted to Sega Chief Creative Officer

General Manager promoted to Chief Operating Officer.

Toshihiro Nagoshi, the man behind Sega‘s Yakuza Studio (Yakuza, Binary Domain), will be promoted to Sega’s Chief Creative Officer during a corporate reshuffling scheduled to occur on April 1.

Nagoshi’s current position is General Manager of R&D Div. #3, Sega R&D/Production.

Naoya Tsurumi, the current General Manager of Sega International and Global Consumer Business, will become the company’s new Chief Operating Officer. The current COO, Okitane Usui, will retire.

Read the full Sega Sammy press release here.