Capcom picks up SOE exec

Capcom USA added another senior-level staffer to its fast-growing roster of executives. In a personal e-mail sent to contacts within the industry, Chris Kramer alerted recipients that he would be leaving Sony Online Entertainment, where for the past three years he has been involved with public relations and corporate communications. Kramer is relocating to Capcom, where he will take on the role of senior director of corporate communications. He joins two other recent hires at Capcom: Charles Bellfield, who was hired as the publisher's vice president of marketing in June, and Germaine Gioia, who was hired as the US subsidiary's first senior executive in the area of licensing (her title is senior vice president of licensing at Capcom) in September. Kramer starts his new assignment on November 1.