Ubisoft appoints Igor Manceau to the position of Director of Creation

We will not be able to reproach Ubisoft from having precipitated to find a replacement in Serge Hascoët. More than a year after the resignation, in July 2020, Chief Creative Officer's historic company, Ubisoft announces that Igor Manceau's person has found his successor.

Not really a newcomer in the entourage of the Guillemot family, Igor Manceau has spent the majority of his 22 years of career at Ubisoft, including marketing in France (between 1998 and 2002) and in Montreal (between 2003 and 2007). Since January 2014, it is at Ubisoft Annecy that this graduate of the Edhec business school worked as Creative Director on Steep and more recently Riders Republic . With this course, Igor Manceau therefore takes the reins of Ubisoft's creative vision by retrieving the position of Chief Creative Officer, the highest placed in the Creative Department of the Group. Igor Manceau, including the leadership and listening and listening weighed in the balance at the time of his selection, will report directly to the CEO Yves Guillemot and obtains a place to the executive committee of the group.

Ubisoft was in search of a successor in Serge Hascoët since the resignation of the latter in July 2020. The former right arm of the Guillemot family was cited as part of the many charges concerning the internal problems of the company. A toxic culture and harassment facts that HASCOËT was accused of having maintained and protected, covering its deputy Tommy François, which is no longer part of Ubisoft either. The departures announced today follow a rigorous review that the Company has led in response to recent allegations and accusations of misappropriate conduct and inappropriate behaviors, Ubisoft announced by also emitting Yannis Mallat (Ubisoft Studios Director in Canada). and Cécile Cornet (Director of Human Resources).

In its quality of Chief Creative Officer, Igor Manceau will have the mission to define and cultivate the creative vision of Ubisoft, while supporting the creative direction of each game so that they are the most accessible, attractive and rewarding for all . He will work closely with all Ubisoft studio stakeholders to integrate new perspectives and sensitivities that will feed the Creative Spirit of the Group. He will also work with the Virginie Haas teams, Chief Studio Operating Officer, and Those of Sandrine Caloiaro, Chief Portfolio Officer, to strengthen Ubisoft franchises and identify creative opportunities in new or emerging genres. , can we read in Ubisoft communiqué.

Employees denounce the cultural uniformity of the grades

For their part, Ubisoft employees have published their own communiqué to take note of the appointment of the new director of creation by inviting him to closely with the employees and regretting that this unique and all powerful position of CCO has been kept despite the previous statements by Yves Guillemot who intended to redefine the functioning of the creative department avoiding to appoint one and the same director of creation. This release also points to the shocking absence of diversity in the vice-presidents of the creative team, despite the recruitment of Bio Jade Adam Granger. Not enough to upset a creative direction composed of white people who are of uniform cultural origin , according to this press release that adds that Serge Hascoët would always be involved in the recruitment of high-level creative positions.