Riot Games hires Frances Frei for help with diversity.
Riot Games hires Frances Frei for help with diversity.
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Riot Games hires former Uber exec Frances Frei as senior diversity and culture adviser

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Riot Games acknowledged it has work to do addressing a sexist work culture and other diversity issues. To address that, the maker of League of Legends said it had hired diversity, leadership, and strategy expert Frances Frei as a senior adviser.

The company said in a blog post that former Uber leader Frei will advise the “culture strike team” and executive team. Riot recently apologized for allowing an admittedly sexist culture that was exposed in an in-depth Kotaku report.

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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.