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
Indie Game Fest & Indie Campus 2024 | Europe | May 31st |
Game Access Conference 2024 | Europe | May 31st |
Indie Craft K-Game Festival 2024 | Europe | May 31st |
Gaymer Pride | North America | Jun 1st |
BostonFig Online 2024 | Jun 1st | |
GameSummit Summer 2024 | Jun 1st | |
Gotland Game Conference 2024 | Nordic | Jun 3rd |
Games Mental Health Summit 2024 | Europe | Jun 3rd |