Mark Beaumont

Mark Beaumont has been a leader in the gaming industry for over 20 years, holding positions with many prestigious and successful gaming companies - Atari, Activision, Data East, Mindscape/The Software Toolworks, Time Warner Interactive and Sony's Psygnosis.

Prior to joining Midway in 1999, Mr. Beaumont held several entertainment software industry management positions including Executive Vice President, General Manager for Sony Corporation of America (Psygnosis division) and Senior Vice President, Product Development and Marketing, Time Warner Interactive. Mr. Beaumont has also served as Product and Merchandising Manager at Activision, Inc. and Atari, Inc. Mr. Beaumont's business development responsibilities at Midway have included product, genre and SKU planning, market research and modeling, business affairs including licensing, product acquisitions and Internet activities.

On January 30, 2002, during his tenure as Midway's Senior Vice President - Business Development Midway Games West, he was also given the position of Senior Vice President - Publishing, reporting directly to Midway Games Chairman and CEO, Neil D. Nicastro.

In November 2005, Marc Beaumont joined Capcom U.S.A. as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In January 2007, he was promoted to Executive Vice President, Officer and Head of Consumer Software Publishing in North America, South America and Europe.

On 2nd May 2008 it was announced he had been promoted Chief Operating Officer of both Capcom Entertainment, Inc., in North America and Capcom Entertainment Europe, as well as maintaining his position on the Capcom Board of Directors.

Mark Beaumont passed away after heart attack in the early hours of February 23rd, 2010.