Jade Raymond, one of Ubisoft’s highest profile employees, has decided to depart the French firm after a decade of service. The luminary is perhaps best known for her role as a producer on Assassin’s Creed, but has held multiple positions throughout the company, and was most recently responsible for the formation of its Ubisoft Toronto studio. In the past, she’s held positions at Electronic Arts and Sony Online Entertainment.
“I've spent 10 extraordinary years at Ubisoft, and I am proud to have been part of many of the best teams in the industry making truly remarkable games,” she said in a statement. “This is one of the hardest decisions of my career, but the Ubisoft Toronto studio is strong and on a solid path. I'm confident that now is a good time for me to transition leadership of the studio and to pursue my other ambitions and new opportunities.”
She concluded by thanking her former employers for all of their support, so there doesn’t appear to be any animosity connected to the departure. Alexandre Parizeau, a colleague of Raymond’s at Ubisoft Toronto, will replace her as managing director from 29th October. “On behalf of Ubisoft, I'd like to thank Jade for her leadership and many contributions over the years, and wish her all of the best in her next adventures,” said Ubisoft Montreal and Toronto CEO Yannis Mallat.
It’s unclear where Raymond will end up, but we suspect that she’ll be getting a lot of phone calls over the next 24 hours. “Stay tuned for more on what's next for me,” she said as part of her statement, so it sounds like she may have something lined up already. We honestly wouldn’t be surprised to see her start up her own studio – after all, she already has plenty of experience in that department.
[source eurogamer.net]
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Somewhere less sexist?
@Bad-MuthaAdebis good luck to her. She came across very well after dealing with some unpleasant circumstances.
Yup, best of luck to her. She always seemed like one of the much more likeable higher-ups in the industry. Can only speculate but I wouldn't be surprised if she's as disgusted with Ubisoft as some gamers are these days.
could someone help me out with some sort of article talking about what you are alluding to with "unpleasant circumstances"?
@Squiggle55 she had to deal with some pretty nasty sexist comments. It culminated in a Web comic (which I won't link to here, because it was vile) that was just in the worst taste possible which seemed to imply that she'd got where she was without talent or effort.
She dealt with the situation well and gained a lot of respect for it, as well as becoming an extremely positive female figure in a male dominated industry.
@Gamer83 I liked her. She came across as the more well meaning kind of person as opposed to what we usually get in people from higher up. Wherever she's going I wish her the best of luck.
It's probably better to leave Ubi right now anyway. Love their games but the business aspect hasn't been a pretty thing recently.
@DerMeister
I don't know what's going on at Ubisoft these days but it seems like the people there have gone into straight idiot mode. Saying stuff like 1080p or especially 60 frames per second don't matter is idiotic. It does matter, now if the consoles can't reach those, they can't reach those, that's fine, but tell us, don't give me this 'well 30 fames is better because it doesn't look as weird' stupidity. Or that they're holding back a game's resolution to 'avoid debates and stuff.' Cancelled my pre-orders on AC Unity and Far Cry 4 and don't feel bad about it.
@Johnnycide Well I wasn't that old when the first AC game came out so had no idea about this stuff, some people are real A-wholes.
@Jazzer94 @Johnnycide I might be wrong here, but I thought all that stuff went down fairly recently as well, within the last couple of years wasn't it? Just when you think an industry is showing signs of maturing in it's attitudes towards women too!
But yeah fair play to her, she set a good example and I hope she's successful with whatever she does next
Nevermind, just looked it all up again and it was further back than I thought - must've heard about it at a later date and taken it as being something current at the time.
She will go to Konami since Kojima goes gaga for her.
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