Takenori Ogata
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| Takenori Ogata |
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| Date of birth: 1939-09[1] (age 85) |
| Company(ies): Rosen Enterprises, Sega of Japan, Sega Amusements Europe |
| Role(s): Vice President, Manager, Director, Salesman |
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Takenori Ogata (小形 武徳) is a former Japanese salesman. His first sales work in the 1950s was for model slot car manufacturers, then pivoting to become a stockbroker, but had to quit in the wake of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and stock market crash.[2] Moving back to sales, he joined Rosen Enterprises in 1964, inspired by seeing Rosen's machines at a US military camp club.[2]
After Rosen Enterprises merged with Service Games the following year to create Sega, Ogata would continue to manage amusement machine sales, playing a crucial role in selling Olympia Star and Harness Race.[2] He remained at Sega of Japan in the subsequent decades,[3][4] latterly also becoming senior director of the company's amusement machine sales divisions in Europe.[1]
By then a vice president, Ogata retired from Sega in June 1998.[5]
Photographs
- Main article: Photos of Takenori Ogata
Magazine articles
- Main article: Takenori Ogata/Magazine articles.
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/7296139/TAKENORI-OGATA (Wayback Machine: 2022-05-05 18:45)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harmony, "1994 4" (JP; 1994-04-01), page 48
- ↑ Vending Times, "Volume 29, No. 10: August 1989" (US; 1989-xx-xx), page 35
- ↑ File:AnnualReport1995 English.pdf, page 22
- ↑ https://www.ampress.co.jp/backnumber/bn1998.06.15.htm (Wayback Machine: 2001-03-06 22:17)