{"id":7506,"date":"2010-04-19T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T16:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7506"},"modified":"2015-04-23T23:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T06:03:57","slug":"gardner-harrison-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/gardner-harrison-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner &#038; Harrison Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Atari-Logo-S.jpg\" alt=\"Atari Logo-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>APRIL 19, 2010 \u2022 David Gardner and Phil Harrison resigned from the Atari S.A. board of directors. The publisher wants to increase focus on its historic brand, adding Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and online entrepreneur Tom Virden as replacements. Bushnell serves as a representative of the BlueBay High Yield Investment SARL (Luxembourg), and Virden will join the Atari audit committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 128);\"><em>Impact: Gardner and Harrison stepped down from their positions as CEO and president in early 2009, so they were already pretty much out of the picture.\u00a0 Bushnell founded the original Atari, but it has no relationship to the current Atari which is a brand name adopted by French publisher Infogrames in 2001.\u00a0 Atari has been significantly downsized in recent years, including selling off much of its European distribution to Namco Bandai in 2009.\u00a0 The big new product from the company is the Star Trek Online MMOG.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 19, 2010 \u2022 David Gardner and Phil Harrison resigned from the Atari S.A. board of directors. The publisher wants to increase focus on its historic brand, adding Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and online entrepreneur Tom Virden as replacements. Bushnell serves as a representative of the BlueBay High Yield Investment SARL (Luxembourg), and Virden will [&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\/7506"}],"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=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14042,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions\/14042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}