Jade Raymond at GamesBeat Summit 2018.
Jade Raymond at GamesBeat Summit 2018.
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Jade Raymond joins Google as a vice president, boosting its gaming cred

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Jade Raymond announced today that she has joined Google as a vice president. That’s a big move for Raymond, who previously served as an executive at Electronic Arts, running its Montreal studio Motive, and is an acclaimed name in the game industry.

Raymond is well known in the video game industry as an executive in charge of triple-A teams. At EA, she helped run studios such as Motive and Visceral that worked on Star Wars video games. She oversaw a studio in Vancouver as well, and managed the Plants vs. Zombies franchise. The Star Wars games ran into problems, but it’s not clear what the reasons were for the turmoil at EA. That resulted in executive shuffles and Raymond left EA last October.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.