Brian J. Farrell

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Brian Farrell has been the President and CEO of THQ since the mid 90s.

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Farrell joined THQ in April 1991, as Vice President and CFO.  During his time the company has focused a lot on licensed content particularly for succesful fighting and wrestling games from World Wrestling Entertainment and now Ultimate Fighting Championship. THQ also owns part of Yukes, one of the best fighting game studios.  THQ is also well known for making many kids games inspired or licensing from Disney, DreamWorks, Marvel and Nickelodeon. 

Before joining THQ, he was CFO of Hotel Investors Trust, a hotel ownership company.  In his early days he worked for various financial companies for many years.

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- Brian is known to like games but not be a "hardcore gamer".    - Brian has his MBA degree from UCLA.

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• Has franchises: Star Wars (Franchise), WWE (Franchise), WCW (Franchise), WWE SmackDown! (Franchise), Strike (Franchise), WWE Smackdown vs. Raw (Franchise), Red Faction (Franchise), Warhammer 40,000 (Franchise), Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (Franchise), Age of Empires (Franchise), Worms (Franchise), Broken Sword (Franchise), SpongeBob SquarePants (Franchise), 50 Cent (Franchise), Pixar (Franchise), Darksiders (Franchise), Saints Row (Franchise), Scooby Doo (Franchise), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Franchise), Rugrats (Franchise), Company of Heroes (Franchise), Tak (Franchise), Evil Dead (Franchise), MX vs ATV (Franchise), Stuntman (Franchise)

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