Gregoire Gabalda

Associate Partner

San Francisco, California, United States27 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years in the video game industry
  • Led $1B partnerships strategy at Ubisoft
  • Innovative collaborations in entertainment and gaming
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in the video game industry with a focus on strategic partnerships and market intelligence.

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Skills

Core Skills

Executive LeadershipBrand PartnershipsMarket Research

Other Skills

MetaversePresenterDeveloper RelationsCommunicationBrand StrategyVideo GamesOnline GamingSocial GamesMobile GamesMMOMonetizationComputer GamesInteractive EntertainmentDigital DistributionEntertainment

About

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." 20+ years’ experience in Video games including 15+ years leading a $1B entertainment partnerships strategy for Ubisoft global portfolio Specialties: - Passionate conceiver with a track record of innovative collaborations in the worlds of Entertainment and Gaming - Strong leadership and collaborative mindset, public speaking, written and verbal communication skills - Proactive self-starter with ability to be flexible, strong sense of ownership and data augmented intuition - Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to foster long term relationships in complex cross-functional organizations

Experience

Ubisoft

3 roles

Senior Director, Global Editorial Licensing

Jun 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Provide fact based recommendations to create genuine collaborations in video games with reference Entertainment properties
  • Partnerships models include fully licensed Video Games on PC-consoles, Mobile Devices, VR and dozens of genuine ingame collaborations
  • Manage Ubisoft relationship with global IP owners such as Hollywood studios, Toy companies, Video Games publishers and other entertainment related companies
  • Projects include games such as Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, Star Wars: Outlaws and past successes such as South Park PC-Console games (more than 10m units sold), South Park Phone Destroyer mobile, Hasbro Pc/console games (Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Risk, Battleship, Scrabble) and Star Trek Bridge Crew Virtual Reality game to name a few.
  • Bring Entertainment or Video Games licenses to Ubisoft's games as genuine in-games collaborations including: multiple integrations in Brawlhalla (Shovel Knight, Adventure Time, WWE, TMNT, The Walking Dead, Hellboy), Rainbow Six Siege (Netflix's Money Heist, Rick And Morty, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider), The Olympic Games in Steep, and many more
MetaversePresenterExecutive LeadershipBrand Partnerships

Senior Director - Licensing

Promoted

Jun 2012 – Present · 13 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Just Dance Disney - partnership between Just Dance (26m units sold dance game brand owned by Ubisoft) and Disney's properties
  • Poptropica - the number one virtual world for kids in the US is coming to video games with Ubisoft
  • Marvel Avengers Battle for Earth console game- Avengers, the #1 entertainment property of 2012
MetaversePresenterBrand Partnerships

Licensing Business Intelligence Director - US

Apr 2009 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Projects recommended and launched include:
  • James Cameron Avatar: More than 3.8m units sold worldwide: best selling movie based game since 2008
  • Michael Jackson The Experience: More than 5.5m units sold worldwide: best selling "one artist" based game of all times
  • The Smurfs&Co Facebook: The #1 Licensed Facebook Game in the world based on the Smurfs cartoon characters. Biggest growing facebook game at launch (more than 10m Monthly Active Users reached in less than 5 weeks)
  • CSI: Crime City Facebook: #1 TV series social game in the world with more than 2.2m monthly active users
  • Shaun White Snowboarding: the #1 Snowboarding gaming brand in the world with more than 3.5m units sold since 2008
PresenterDeveloper RelationsMarket Research

Activision blizzard

Business Intelligence Director - Europe

Jul 2008 – Mar 2009 · 8 mos

  • Market expert actor in the Activision & Blizzard Merge - $18.8 Billion Deal
  • Activision Blizzard merger approval filing to Europe Commission: elaboration of the notification of concentration detailing market positions and economic rational
  • Market Research Budget creation for the new Activision Blizzard Europe entity
PresenterMarket Research

Vivendi games

Global Market Intelligence Director

Jan 2000 – Jul 2008 · 8 yrs 6 mos

  • Main skills:
  • Creating and supervising the Vivendi Games global business intelligence team
  • Management of 3 market analysts in Europe and 2 analysts in the US
  • Coordinating international surveys on the video games industry
  • Communication and presentation of market trends, product results and competitors practices
  • Prospecting and buying the more relevant qualitative and quantitative surveys for strategic decisions support
  • Negotiating contracts and partnerships with retailers panels in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific - budget over €1.5m
  • Main achievements:
  • Market reports for VG international
  • Direct support for strategic recommendations -CEO, CFO
  • .Online gaming: World of Warcraft Europe, business plan
  • .Mobile gaming: creation of the VG mobile gaming structure in Europe
  • Direct support to marketing teams - Europe HQ and subsidiaries
  • .Marketing plans
  • .Forecasts; creation of a forecast model
  • .Competitors marketing spending and PR activities practices comparisons

Fromageries bel

Brand Manager Europe

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr

  • Responsible for the brands "The Laughing Cow, Apéricube and Pik&Croq"
  • Coordinating subsidiaries marketing teams
  • Creating operations and promotions on European level with all the operational departments: legal, sales, R&D
  • Type of operations: launch of new products, advertising campaigns, new packaging and logos implementation
  • European Promotional budgets follow up – budget over €2m
  • Recruiting and managing two people and two interns

Siemens automotive

Market Analyst

Jan 1997 – Jan 1997 · 0 mo

  • SIEMENS AUTOMOTIVE S.A. Toulouse
  • Responsible for a training cession of engineers on the different uses of Internet
  • Responsible for a prospecting survey on the Electro-magnetic Compatibility

Education

TBS Education

Master in Management — Specialization Marketing

Jan 1996 – Jan 1999

Safran Consulting

Management improvement program

Jan 2006 – Present

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