Hubert Larenaudie
Founder
Hubert 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.
