After six years, his predecessor has decided to step down and has already decided who will take his place, so it’s a pretty smooth transition.

Nintendo recently announced that it has completed the reorganization of its European subsidiaries, so that instead of having a single company in each country, Nintendo of Europe SE now covers our continent. This did not involve any layoffs, and all offices remained open. Perhaps as a result of the reorganization, former Nintendo of Europe CEO Stephan Bole is no longer in that role.

Bole joined Nintendo in 1993, so he spent more than three decades at the big N. He started out as marketing director for Nintendo’s French subsidiary. He came up through the ranks in 2018, when Shibata Satoru stepped down as Nintendo’s European CEO and Bole took over the role. He was succeeded by Luciano Pereña, who became president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Nintendo’s European segment. He had joined the big N in February 1994 and was most recently CFO of Nintendo’s European division, so he was close enough to the fire to be at the helm alongside Bole.

Laurent Fischer, who was Nintendo’s managing director for Europe from 2006 to 2015 and was appointed head of marketing in 2018, will become the company’s chief operating officer. Tom Enoki, who has been a member of Nintendo of Europe’s senior management team since 2022, has been appointed senior managing director of the Corporate Planning Office.

“On behalf of the entire company, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Stephan Bole for his outstanding leadership and many years of service to Nintendo. I am honored to continue Nintendo’s purpose of putting smiles on faces, and I am confident that this leadership group and united European team will allow us to build on our company’s legacy of delivering unique experiences,” Pereña said in a statement.

Good luck to the new leaders, and they’ll be jumping into the deep end soon, as the successor to the Nintendo Switch will be unveiled soon…

Source: VGC