Mayfair’s Will Niebling Is Retiring
After ten years as CEO of Mayfair Games, Will Niebling has decided to retire from the company, although he’ll remain a shareholder of Mayfair. Pete Fenlon will take over as corporate CEO.
Source: Mayfair Games
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Jun 29, 2007 at 03:00 PM in Game News, The Industry at Large / 988
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The full press release mentioned other movement of personnel within the company. This begs the question - how does their business model work, especially compared with RGG? RGG releases a ton of games with what seems like 1 1/2 workers. Mayfair would seem to do a fraction of the business requiring a significant infrastructure to do so. So either RGG is rolling in money, Mayfair is losing money, or Settlers is just a crazy windfall that pays all of Mayfair’s bills. Posted by Jonathan Degann on Jun 29, 2007 at 05:08 PM | #
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Jonathan, I wouldn’t even begin to speculate on the inner workings of these companies based on the meager information included in this press release. You have to figure in outsourced work (as I’m sure Jay doesn’t ship the games out himself), warehouse expenses, payments to designers and artists, margins, fixed costs, state taxes, and so on. (At this moment, the press release isn’t on MayfairGames.com, ICv2.com or GamingReport.com, although it will likely run on at least one of these soon.) Posted by W. Eric Martin on Jun 29, 2007 at 06:34 PM | #
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Check Pete Fenlon’s Wikipedia page:
Posted by Brett Myers on Jun 30, 2007 at 05:50 PM | #
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