Doug Spencer Bowser is an American businessman, currently serving as the

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. He succeeded

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as president in 2019, having previously worked for

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and

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Early career

Bowser graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in communications in 1984, going on to work at

from 1984 to 2007, which included serving as the director of customer marketing for the Latin American region from 1998 to 2004, and the company's Safeway customer team from 2004 to 2007. Bowser worked at

from 2007 through 2015, serving as vice president of global demand planning.

Nintendo

Bowser joined in Nintendo in 2015 as the vice president of sales and marketing, and was promoted to senior vice president of sales and marketing in mid-2016, where he oversaw the promotion and release of the Nintendo Switch within North America. In February 2019, Nintendo of America's president and

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announced his retirement, and Bowser was named as his successor for the company's president in April 2019. In addition to these duties, Bowser represents Nintendo for the

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. The fact that Bowser shares his surname with the main antagonist of the ''Mario'' franchise,

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, drew interest when he was first hired by Nintendo, and was the subject of further humorous reactions online upon his promotion to president. The

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Early career

Nintendo

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