Jade Raymond is a French Canadian

French Canadian

French Canadian or Francophone Canadian, , generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France in the 17th and 18th centuries...

 video game executive currently working as the Managing Director of Ubisoft Toronto

Ubisoft Toronto

Ubisoft Toronto is a subsidiary of French video game developer Ubisoft located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2009, Ubisoft Toronto was officially announced on 6 July 2009 with the studio location being officially confirmed on 4 December 2009....

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Biography

Jade Raymond graduated from Marianopolis College

Marianopolis College

Marianopolis College is a private, subsidized CEGEP in Montreal nestled against the side of Mount Royal in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. It is one of the smallest anglophone colleges, with a student body of fewer than 2,000...

 and enrolled in McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

’s computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 program. Her first post-university job was as a programmer for Sony, where she eventually helped in the creation of Sony Online’s first Research and Development group. This led to Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

 where she worked as a producer on The Sims Online

The Sims Online

The Sims Online was a massively multiplayer online variation on Maxis's highly popular computer game The Sims. It was published by Electronic Arts and released on December 17, 2002 for Microsoft Windows. In March 2007, EA announced that the product would be re-branded as EA-Land and major...

. In 2004, she started working for Ubisoft Montreal

Ubisoft Montreal

Ubisoft Montreal is a Canadian video game developer owned by French publisher Ubisoft.Ubisoft's North American studio is located in Montreal, Quebec...

, where she was appointed as producer of Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed is an award-winning historical third person, stealth action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The bulk of the game takes place during the Third Crusade, with the plot revolving around a sect known as the Secret Order of...

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Raymond later joined the G4

G4 (TV channel)

G4, also known as G4 TV, is an American cable- and satellite-television channel originally geared primarily toward young adult viewers, originally based on the world of video games...

 program The Electric Playground

The Electric Playground

The Electric Playground is a daily news television show on the cable TV network G4 that covers movies, TV shows, comic books, collectibles and gadgets...

as a correspondent, working with Victor Lucas

Victor Lucas

Victor "Vic" Lucas is a Canadian television producer and personality, mainly known as the creator, executive producer, writer, co-host and director of the television program The Electric Playground. He is also the creator, executive producer, and co-host of Reviews on the Run; the show was known...

, Tommy Tallarico

Tommy Tallarico

Tommy Tallarico is an American video game music composer and musician. He is best known as the co-creator of the concert series Video Games Live...

 and Julie Stoffer

Julie Stoffer

Julie A. Stoffer is a reality show personality, best known as a cast member on MTV's reality television series The Real World: New Orleans, the ninth season of The Real World series...

. She volunteers for a non-profit organization called LOVE, dedicated to ending violence among youth in Canada. Raymond considers herself an avid gamer. In July 2009, Jade was named Managing Director of Ubisoft Toronto

Ubisoft Toronto

Ubisoft Toronto is a subsidiary of French video game developer Ubisoft located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2009, Ubisoft Toronto was officially announced on 6 July 2009 with the studio location being officially confirmed on 4 December 2009....

 studio. She currently lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.

Sony Online Entertainment

• Jeopardy!
  Jeopardy!
  Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
  
  (Programmer)
• Trivial Pursuit
  Trivial Pursuit
  Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions. The game was created in 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette and Scott Abbott, a sports...
  
  (Programmer)

Ubisoft Montreal

• Assassin's Creed (2007) (Producer)
• Assassin's Creed II
  Assassin's Creed II
  Assassin's Creed II is a historical third-person action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is the second video game installment of the Assassin's Creed series, and is a sequel to the 2007 video...
  
  (2009) (Executive Producer)

External links

• Jade Raymond at MobyGames
  MobyGames
  -Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...