Ubisoft: Yves Guillemot appoints his son to the head of a committee that has 100 days to give a “new breath” to the group

100 days to rethink Ubisoft. It is the mission of the Transformation Committee created by the CEO Yves Guillemot and was entrusted to his son Charles, two months after the historical agreement concluded with the Chinese Tencent to create a subsidiary that meets the three largest franchises of the group: Assassin’s Creed, Cry AND Rainbow Six.

100 million additional savings to find

10 members, 100 days and 100 million additional savings to find in the next two years to continue straightening the business: the task is heavy for this processing committee. 200 million euros have already been made in savings, with the closure of three studies worldwide. The first French video game editor accuses a net loss of 159 million euros in the last fiscal fiscal year 2024-2025.

In this internal email that BFM Business was able to consult, Yves Guillemot, 64, indicates looking for a new breathing. He appoints his son Charlie Guillemot at the head of this committee with Marie-Sophie de Waubert, general director of studies, appointments that Ubisoft confirms us. “The future that promises to be required new energy and passion for the games that corresponds to the current era,” writes Yves Guillemot.

A return to Charlie Guillemot

After having co -directed Owlient, one of the studies of the group dedicated to mobile games, as of 2014, Charlie Guillemot, in the thirties, had left the company four years after an editorial controversy on the game trailer Tom Clancy elite squad (The study had taken care of the visual elements of the Black Lives Matter organization, associated in the game with a terrorist group).

Until then, the absence of a family heir to the history of CEO Yves Guillemot fed the rumors of a future acquisition by the Chinese Tence. For employees contacted by BFM Business, their child’s return is seen as a means to transmit the torch to the next generation.

Employees who also point out that this internal email has not yet been sent to studies, no doubt for fear that this news is poorly perceived in the current uncertain context.