THE POWER LIST › GAMING TYCOONS

These tech whizzes are ensuring the revolution will be gamified—and Canadian

Katie Underwood

01 Jade Raymond FOUNDER, HAVEN STUDIOS CANADA’S GAMING POWERHOUSE SET OUT TO DO HER OWN THING. THEN SONY CAME CALLING. Jade Raymond knows a thing or two about world-building. In the span of her two-decade career, the 47-year-old veteran developer from Montreal watched (and played along) as the standard for gaming technology rose from Mario—now in 3D!—to characters rendered in such uncanny detail that they could easily be mistaken for flesh-and-blood humans. Reality blurred even further during the pandemic, when gameplay morphed from an entertaining pastime to a full-blown social lifeline, whether in the form of a chaotic Fortnite battle royale or a friendly night-fishing expedition in Animal Crossing. In February of 2021, Raymond learned that Google would be shuttering Stadia, its in-house gaming operation, where she was VP. She saw…

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