Bernie Stolar rises again as chairman of Vivo Products
Bernie Stolar has worked for everyone in the video game industry. So it’s no surprise to see him appointed chairman today of Vivo Products, a manufacturer of consumer electronics entertainment products.
The San Francisco-based company also appointed Kelli Richards, a veteran of music-related jobs at EMI and Apple, as vice president of business development and content partnerships.
Over the course of a 30-year career, Stolar has been a big newsmaker in the game industry. He was executive vice president of third party content for the Sony Playstation, but was fired just before the launch of that system. He was president and chief operating officer of Sega of America, but again was fired before the launch of the Dreamcast game console. (He often didn’t get along with his Japanese overseers). And he was president of Mattel Interactive.
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