Hubert Larenaudie

Job Title

President and Chief Operating Officer

Organisation Voodoo

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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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