Profile
Hubert Larenaudie
About
About
President and COO positions in international business
Hubert is an energetic business leader with 25 years’ experience in driving fast revenue in Asia Pacific, Europe, US, Latin America. He has been an over achiever for all his career focused on international markets. In his last 3 positions as President for global business and Asia Pacific, he has brought transformative growth and unprecedented profits to high-tech/gaming companies such as Unity Software (IPO $40B),Take 2 Games, Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, BIC and Aventis. He is credited for the incredibly successful launch of the games World of Warcraft ($1.5Bn gross revenue since 2005) and FIFA Online in Asia ($150m/year in Korea and China since 2006). Lately he has built from scratch a highly profitable business for Unity.
Areas of expertise include:
- Strategy
- Enabling emerging international markets for US and European companies
- Developing New Digital Businesses
- Forming Strategic Partnerships
- Hiring and scaling teams in emerging markets
- Delivering long term Revenue and Profit from new markets
- Driving large scale M&A deals
- Managing Budgets and P&L for listed companies
Executive highlights:
- Deliver profitable growth. Grew Asia business for Take 2 by 50 times within 5 years, and OPINC by 60 times. Activision/Blizzard from $5m to $150m in 7 years, 65% OPINC
- Scaling teams and profits. Grew Activision Blizzard APAC business from 0 to 350 employees
- Develop new digital business. Established leading market share in Online Gaming with FIFA Online (#1 Sports game in Korea since 2006 release) and NBA 2K Online (#1 Sports game in China since 2013)
- Large scale M&A. Drove $300m worth of M&A deals in China and South Korea in Online gaming
- Forming Strategic Partnership. Signed landmark, 10 years deal with Tencent to develop and operate the first online basketball game in China, effectively signing with the #1 company in the world’s largest online games market.
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Events
Valencia Indie Summit 2024 | Europe | May 16th |
Digital Dragons | Europe | May 19th |
Mobidictum Meetup Tallinn May 2024 | Europe | May 21st |
Israel Mobile Summit 2024 | Middle East | Jun 6th |
Future Games Show 2024 | Jun 8th | |
PC Gaming Show 2024 | Jun 9th | |
WN Conference Istanbul 2024 | Jun 11th | |
DevGAMM Vilnius 2024 | Europe | Jun 14th |