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Peter Moore Is Leaving EA for Liverpool FC
Today, Liverpool FC announced Peter Moore as their new CEO. Moore, a huge Liverpool fan, has landed what might be his dream job.
Moore, currently the Chief Competition Officer for EA, will start his new job in June.
The 61-year-old is currently chief competition officer at Electronic Arts, based in the United States, and will move to Liverpool to join the club in the summer. His nearly 10 years at EA have seen him in a number of leadership positions, including chief operating officer and president of EA SPORTS.
Moore has previously held senior roles with Microsoft, SEGA and Reebok. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Keele University in the UK and a master’s degree from California State University.
The appointment completes a 10-month transition plan by FSG and finalises the senior management structure at the club.”
Moore’s departure comes as eSports has begun an upward swing in sports gaming. The new head of EA’s competition division will certainly play a huge role in how all of EA’s titles respond to the growing market.
We’ll be keeping an eye on it.
UPDATE: (2-28) Andrew Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, has posted a thank you note at EA, including some details on the leadership transition.
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I was thinking the same thing, but April Fools is still just over a month away.
mr moore was the biggest reason EA did not make sports on PC other than FIFA
A PC madden with XBOX 1 PS4 tech could sale big esp in the uk
mr moore was the biggest reason EA did not make sports on PC other than FIFA
A PC madden with XBOX 1 PS4 tech could sale big esp in the uk
I have committed to not buying Madden until it is on PC again. I have not played one down of Madden 17(did not purchase). EA is missing the boat on PC it is a totally different market than when they scrapped Madden PC in 07 or whatever year that was(last release Madden 08)
Peter Moore was employed by Microsoft from 2003 to 2007 as the head of their fledgling XBOX brand; after he left for EA, he was succeeded by Don Mattrick. To that end, Moore had nothing to do with the NFL exclusivity negotiations. If anything, Moore's high-level steering as the head of EA Sports (and later EA in general) helped to right the Madden NFL ship after a rocky Gen-3 presence to the far more stable and mechanically robust Gen-4 games we enjoy today.
Heck, Electronic Arts as a total humongous company is in better shape and has a better reputation than it did even two years ago, especially with recent quality releases such as Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, Unravel, and so on. In fact, EA was the top-ranked publisher on Metacritic in 2016, rising from 7th the previous year. Moore's leadership no doubt influenced those positive changes.