How Activision Blizzard is known on its website, J. All Brack leaves the company after 15 years. The reason is the current situation for allegations for sexual harassment and discrimination against women.
Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will work as co-director of Blizzard in the future. Onal has been Executive Vice President of Development since January and previously led the team of Vicarious Visions.
Ybara came in 2019 after a long career at Xbox to Blizzard and last worked as executive Vice President and General Manager of Platform and Technology for the company.
"Jen and Mike have more than three decades of experience in the gaming industry. In the future, you will share responsibility for the game development and operation of the company, "said Blizzard. "Both leaders are deeply obliged to all our employees; You want to make sure that Blizzard is the safest and most inviting workplace for women and humans any sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation or origin; They want to maintain and strengthen our values; And they want to restore your trust. With their many years of experience in the industry and their deep commitment to integrity and integration, Jen and Mike Blizzard will result in care, compassion and devotion for outstanding achievements. You will soon hear more of Jen and Mike. "
Also, J. All Brack said in a statement: "I am confident that Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will take on the leadership that Blizzard needs to exploit his full potential, and that they will speed up the pace of changes. I assume that you will do this with passion and enthusiasm and that you can rely on the highest level of integrity and commitment to the components of our culture, which make blizzard so special. "
According to the management of Blizzard, Brack leaves the developer to "pursue new ways".
In another statement, the Gamasutra said, it says: "It became clear to all Brack and the leadership of Activision Blizzard that Blizzard Entertainment needs a new direction and leadership, given the critical work, in relation to job culture, game development and innovation lies ahead of us. "
J. All Brack work since 2006 at Activision Blizzard and held a series of positions there, among other things as a production manager of World of Warcraft. After the resignation of Mike Morhaime he became President of the company in 2018.
The change of leadership comes within the lawsuit submitted by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing against Activision Blizzard, in which it goes on violations of labor equality, sexual discrimination and sexual harassment.
A further action of a shareholder is claimed that Activision Blizzard has made "false and misleading" information on the investigation and has not informed about the years of investigation, which may be responsible for a decline in share price. The CEO Bobby Kotick should have been directly mentioned in the application.
The employees of Activision Blizzard recently laid out the work against the company's response to the company's response, and hundreds of Ubisoft employees showed their support in an open letter.
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