12 Facts About Hayao Nakayama

Hayao Nakayama is a Japanese businessman and was the former President and CEO of Sega Enterprises, Ltd from 1983 to 1999.

However, Hayao Nakayama decided to drop out of college and not to pursue medicine further.

Hayao Nakayama became president of Sega Enterprises in July 1983, and advocated for Sega to enter the still-growing Japanese home console market.

Hayao Nakayama became CEO of Sega Enterprises, and Isao Okawa of CSK Corporation became chairman.

In mid-1990, Hayao Nakayama hired Tom Kalinske to replace Katz as CEO of Sega of America.

In 1992, Hayao Nakayama was named chairman of the Japan Amusement Machinery Manufactures Association.

Sega began development of its next console, the Sega Saturn, but Hayao Nakayama was concerned about the release of the Atari Jaguar in 1993 and that the Saturn may not be ready for release in time to compete.

Hayao Nakayama stressed a quick response, which led to the development of the 32X.

However, Hayao Nakayama made the decision to focus on the Saturn over the Genesis, based on the systems' relative performance in Japan.

Hayao Nakayama resigned his position as co-chairman of Sega of America, though he remained with the company.

In 1999, Hayao Nakayama was named chairman of the board of Pasona Inc In March 2000, he was named president of Cavia Inc.

Hayao Nakayama has served roles at Microsoft Japan and Virgin PLAY.