The French Giant of the Ubisoft video games announced on Wednesday the arrival of Charlie Guillemot, son of the current CEO Yves Guillemot, and Christophe Derennes at the head of his new subsidiary bringing together his most popular titles.
Back in the family business since April, Charlie Guillemot will direct the new entity created in March – which has no names yet – which will bring together the flagship sagas “Assassin’s Creed”, “Far Cry” and “Rainbow Six”.
The 30 -year -old will share his functions with Christophe Derennes, working in Ubisoft since 1990, which notably piloted the important studio of the publisher in Montreal (Canada). Entered Ubisoft in 2014, Charlie Guillemot had led the Owlient studio for almost seven years, bought in 2011, before leaving the company in 2021 to found its start-up, Unagi.
According to several specialized media, this departure was notably linked to a controversy born from the broadcasting of a trailer for a studio game where a fictitious terrorist organization took up certain symbols of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Created at the end of March via a contribution of 1.16 billion euros from the Chinese group Tencent, the new subsidiary of Ubisoft, valued at more than 4 billion euros, should bring together around 3,000 of the group’s 17,000 employees.
Since his return, Charlie Guillemot has also been piloting the Ubisoft transformation committee.
The publisher announced in May to work in a new organization of its operational model to “ensure superior quality” of its games and “a disciplined capital allowance”, the details of which should be known by the end of the year. Despite the success of the latest “Assassin’s Creed” at the end of the year, Ubisoft once again changed in the red on its 2024-2025 fiscal year, weighed down by several halftime launches and a stock market tumble. He is due to present the financial results of his first quarter on Tuesday.