35 Facts About Bobby Kotick

Robert A Kotick was born on 1963 and is an American businessman who serves as the chief executive officer of Activision Blizzard.

Bobby Kotick became CEO of Activision in 1991 after purchasing a company stake the previous year.

Bobby Kotick has served on several boards, including The Coca-Cola Company from 2012 to 2022, and Yahoo from 2003 to 2008.

Robert A Kotick was born in 1963 in the US, and grew up in New York.

In junior high school, Bobby Kotick had his own business cards, and in high school, he ran a business renting out Manhattan clubs on off nights.

Bobby Kotick studied art history at the University of Michigan in the early 1980s.

Bobby Kotick met with Kotick and Marks in Ann Arbor and advised them to drop out of college to focus on the software business.

Bobby Kotick took the advice and left the University of Michigan to focus all of his time on his company.

Bobby Kotick planned to remove the keyboard and disk drive from the Amiga 500 and turn it into a video game system.

Bobby Kotick was unsuccessful in persuading Commodore's then-Chairman Irving Gould to sell control of the company.

Bobby Kotick was CEO of Leisure Concepts from June 1990 to December 1990.

Bobby Kotick changed the name back to Activision, performed a full restructuring of the company, and refocused the company on video games.

Bobby Kotick served as a founder of International Consumer Technologies and was president from 1986 to January 1995.

In November 2006, Bobby Kotick started discussing a merger with the games division of Vivendi, a French entertainment conglomerate, which included Blizzard Entertainment and Sierra Entertainment.

Bobby Kotick engineered the Activision Blizzard merger, which created a new company, Activision Blizzard.

Bobby Kotick said he aimed to build on Blizzard's successes in the Asian market to introduce Activision's games there.

Bobby Kotick has used Activision Blizzard's industry position to push partners for changes that he maintains would benefit the gaming community.

In July 2009, Bobby Kotick threatened to stop making games for the PlayStation 3 platform if Sony did not cut the price of the console.

Bobby Kotick urged the British government to reward Activision for continuing to invest in the country's pool of game developers by providing Activision with the same kinds of tax incentives provided by Canada, Singapore, and eastern bloc countries.

In October 2016, Bobby Kotick announced the creation of Activision Blizzard's Overwatch League.

Bobby Kotick then became involved in further litigation with Glaser's firm as he only paid them $200,000 for their legal services when Glaser stated the full amount was for more than $1 million.

Bobby Kotick stated that the company would begin a series of reforms, including an internal investigation of the reports and adapting a zero tolerance policy related to workplace misconduct.

Bobby Kotick stated he would have the board reduce his salary to the minimum allowed by California law and forgo other benefits until the situation was resolved.

Further, the report asserted that Bobby Kotick himself had threatened to kill an assistant on their voice mail.

Bobby Kotick is a non-executive director for The Coca-Cola Company and a board member at the Center for Early Education and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Bobby Kotick was the 21st most highly compensated CEO in the United States that year.

Bobby Kotick earned 319 times more than the average Activision Blizzard employee's salary of $97,000 in that year, putting him in 75th place among US CEOs.

Bobby Kotick is working under a deal inked in November 2016 with Activision Blizzard under which he earns bonuses if Activision Blizzard meets certain financial targets related to mergers and acquisitions.

Bobby Kotick was expected to receive a bonus at $200 million, which has been reduced to a bonus package of $155 million following criticism.

Some statements Bobby Kotick has made about his business strategy have led to controversy.

Bobby Kotick has focused on developing intellectual property which can be, in his words, "exploited" over a long period, to the exclusion of new titles which cannot guarantee sequels.

Bobby Kotick identifies as a libertarian and donated to the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2007 and 2008.

Bobby Kotick endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 US presidential election.

In 2011, Bobby Kotick had a cameo appearance in the film Moneyball as Oakland Athletics co-owner Stephen Schott.

In October 2009, Bobby Kotick co-founded the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit benefit corporation.