{"id":5695,"date":"2009-05-29T15:10:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T22:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5695"},"modified":"2013-05-10T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T03:09:16","slug":"phil-harrison-steps-down-at-atari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/phil-harrison-steps-down-at-atari\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Harrison Steps Down at Atari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8626\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8626\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8626 \" alt=\"Atari president Phil Harrison has resigned.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/Phil-Harrison-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"339\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Harrison has resigned as Atari president.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MAY 29, 2009 \u2022 Just weeks after Infogrames sold Atari&#8217;s European business to Namco Bandai, Atari president Phil Harrison stepped down from overseeing daily operations of the division. Harrison, best known for his years with Sony&#8217;s PlayStation business, had been in the job for 14 months. Atari said Harrison will remain on its board as non-executive Director of the Group. Infogrames CEO David Gardner, and recently arrived COO Jeff Lapin, will lead the mostly U.S. focused Atari.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: Phil Harrison helped build Sony Computer Entertainment into a major software publishing powerhouse. It was therefore a surprise that in early 2008 he came into the struggling Infogrames fold.\u00a0Harrison came into an Atari that was clearly in need of a major turnaround.\u00a0It would have been a daunting task under the best of times, but an economic meltdown clearly didn&#8217;t help matters<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 29, 2009 \u2022 Just weeks after Infogrames sold Atari&#8217;s European business to Namco Bandai, Atari president Phil Harrison stepped down from overseeing daily operations of the division. Harrison, best known for his years with Sony&#8217;s PlayStation business, had been in the job for 14 months. Atari said Harrison will remain on its board as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8625,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions\/8625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}