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Activision CEO Kotick and Co-Chairman Kelly profit from stock options

by Brian Allen on Nov 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM

Kotick imageIt is a good time to be the always-controversial Activision CEO Bobby Kotick.

According to Games Industry Biz, Kotick exercised stock options on 1.93 million shares allowing him to buy them for $1.03 and sell them for between $11.43 and 11.54 each.

Also making a pretty penny through stock options this week was one of Activision’s Co-Chairman, Brian Kelly. He exercised options that cost him $5.1 million to acquire and sold for $15.6 million. These moves were made Wednesday (November 11, 2009), a day after the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which made an estimated $310 million in the United States and United Kingdom on its first day.

The at times brash Kotick has his fair share of critics, but Activision’s stockholders are likely not among them.

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