SHANGHAI, Aug. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Youzu Interactive
Co., Ltd. (Youzu.cn/aboutEnăgtarcade.com) announced on July 30 that the company has signed an agreement
appointing former Sony President and CEO Nobuyuki Idei as consultant, serving as a
one-man "think tank" for the firm during the implementation of its
global deployment strategy. At the signing ceremony, Youzu
Interactive's Chairman & CEO Lin
Qi said that the global economic revolution over the
next one or two decades will be driven by young leaders from
Asia, while, to realize the
revolution, younger business leaders will need guidance from
globally well-known and outstanding entrepreneurs such as Nobuyuki
Idei.
Nobuyuki Idei is one of the most highly reputed business
executives in Japan. He was
chiefly responsible for Sony's global expansion, yet was also one
of the most controversial executives in the history of Sony. He has
the reputation as a traditional entrepreneur who knows internet
better than any of his peers in Japan. He established Quantum Leaps Corp., a
sci-tech consulting firm and acted as its CEO, after leaving Sony
in 2005. Idei said at the signing ceremony that he is quite
familiar with China and bullish
about the Chinese market and capacity that Chinese firms have for
innovation and development. He served as a member of the advisory
board at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management
for several years, and successively served as an Independent
Director at Baidu and a Non-Executive Director at Lenovo. The
global vision of the dynamic Youzu.com and its strong global
deployment capacity were both factors that were appealing to Idei
and led to his accepting the position. Idei said that businesses in
China are confronting an important
period of transition with many entrepreneurs flush with money but
lacking in ideas for development. He feels that it is the younger
business leaders who will lead the trend. He said, "I feel lucky to
know Lin Qi. He is a man with a lot of promise."
Lin Qi was recently named one of the Best Ten Asian Young
Business Leaders by Wealth-X, the global authority on wealth
intelligence. Born in the 1980s, Lin Qi is one of the few
self-made businessmen among world-class young entrepreneurs. He
told Idei that Youzu Interactive is currently involved in games,
movies and related sectors in a move to first establish a strong
presence. The company then plans to rely on the strong presence to
expand into other sectors. As both China and Japan are Asian countries, they have many
similarities in terms of cultural markets and the development of
the cultural sector. Having Idei on board as consultant represents
the achievement of a great milestone as he can serve as a bridge
for communication and cooperation between young entrepreneurs in
Japan and China and lead them in terms of best practices
for collaboration.
Before the signing ceremony, Idei and a group of Japan's leading young entrepreneurs, visited
Youzu Interactive 's Corporate News Center, Innovation and
Entrepreneurial Center, Player Experience Center, Employee
Recreation Area and Cinemas, and watched the trailer of the science
fiction film Three Body. Youzu Interactive's dynamic energy,
innovative strength and corporate culture impressed them. At the
site of the signing ceremony, the two sides had a meaningful
discussion about the current situation of games, animation, movies,
cultural publishing and related industries in China and Japan and collaboration prospects after Lin
presented the Consultant Appointment Letter to Idei.
Youzu Interactive has remained focused on a global strategy that
combines the development of intellectual properties and the
application of big data. The company has an excellent track record
in terms of global game releases. To date the company has
successfully released its games in over 70 countries and regions.
The online and mobile versions of the game, League of
Angels, is a strong and defining illustration of how a Chinese
game has succeeded in the global market. Since Youzu Interactive
went public in June 2014 with the
issuance of yuan-denominated ordinary shares (A-shares), the first
game developer in China to do so,
the company has been aggressively raising capital as a means to
carry out its global deployment including projects in the film,
animation and entertainment industries and the setting up of
operations and offices in North
America, Europe,
Southeast Asia and Taiwan, in addition to other locations. The
company plans to further develop partnerships in more countries and
regions. In April 2015, Youzu
Interactive and Google reached an agreement on cooperating on a
Joint Business Plan (JBP). As part of the agreement, the two sides
will form a partnership involving digitally integrated marketing,
data mining and analysis on a global scale as well as overseas
distribution of mobile games and similar products. Mob.com,
acquired by Youzu Interactive , is the world's largest service
platform for mobile developers and has been installed on more than
2 billion mobile devices worldwide. Yoozoo Movies recently
announced that it will set up a subsidiary in Hollywood with the mission of bringing
Hollywood movies to China and Chinese movies to North American
cinemas in addition to carrying out research on the American film
industry. Lin Qi emphasized during his comments, Nobuyuki Idei, in
his role as consultant for Youzu Interactive, will be an important
bridge for effective communications between young Japanese and
Chinese business leaders, and is expected to assist Youzu
Interactive in creating and implementing a new plan for the roll
out of the firm's global deployment strategy.
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