Jade Raymond

Jade Raymond - Producer
This ground-breaking 32 year-old is considered to be the first star producer in the games industry. In November 2007, she launched her much anticipated game “Assassin’s Creed,” which went on to sell 2.5 million copies within 4 weeks. Ms. Raymond was already developing software on her computer at the age of 14. She went on to work as a programmer at Sony and also collaborated with “Sims” creator Will Wright at Electronic Arts to produce “Sims Online.” Today, she is a video game producer at Ubisoft in Montreal. In her Keynote, Ms. Raymond will be speaking about her work as a creative producer and how the narrative structures of video games and cinematic images influence each other.

Biography
As Ubisoft Producer, Jade Raymond is in charge of all SKUs of the Assassin's Creed
franchise. Over the past 10 years, through her work at There Inc., Electronic Arts and Sony Online, Jade has built a reputation of successfully shipping large-scale “triple A” games.

Ms. Raymond started her career as a programmer developing educational games for IBM and consulting in Microsoft’s Advanced Research Group. Her education includes a degree in fine arts and a BSC. in Computer Science. Jade believes that the impact that videogame have on people’s lives will evolve in an important way in the years to come and that that impact can be positive. She serves on the board of directors of LOVE (a non-profit dedicated to reducing violence in the lives of youth) because it's good to put your money where your mouth is. She was also the co-host of Electric Playground, a Telly Award-winning TV show that covers the videogame industry and Pop Culture.