Christopher Schmitz will leave Remedy Entertainment

Remedy Entertainment's Chief Operations Officer, Christopher Schmitz has resigned and will leave the Finnish company on May 31, 2024.

After just over five years, Christopher Schmitz is leaving Remedy Entertainment on 31 May 2024. The Finnish company made waves last year with the release of Alan Wake 2. "Christopher Schmitz has had various responsibilities during the past five years, with which he has helped in building the foundations of our multi-project model, and developing game project leadership, as well as selected support functions. I want to warmly thank him and wish him all the best in his next endeavors", says CEO Tero Virtala. Remedy will not be filling the position of COO due to changes in the organisation.

Schmitz was previously Director of Product Development at Ubisoft, Director of Production at Quantic Dream, Chief Business Development Officer at IO Interactive and Director of Product Development at Ghost Games. He wrote about his job at Remedy on LinkedIn: "As a member of Remedy's executive management team, I play a multifaceted role in driving our game development endeavours. While I oversee the entirety of our game development efforts, a core part of my responsibility centers on assembling, mentoring, and leading high-caliber game development teams. I ensure they have the resources and direction needed to turn our groundbreaking creative visions into reality. Furthermore, I engage in targeted strategic project interventions, fine-tuning all game development aspects to empower our talented teams to achieve their full creative potential."

Remedy has made management changes over the last two years, including the earlier changes to the role of Chief Product Officer and the appointment of a new Chief Technology Officer. "These developments have been made to better manage and support Remedy's game portfolio and game development personnel. With these organizational changes, the previous COO responsibilities are distributed to other management team members, and Remedy will not look for a replacement," states the company. Mikael Kasurinen has been appointed as Remedy's Creative Director and will share creative responsibilities with Sami Järvi, who has served as the company's Creative Director and Creative Director on Alan Wake 2. Kasurinen has been the Game Director of Control since 2016, and is currently the Game Director of Control 2. Kasurinen will join Remedy's core management team.

"I welcome Mikael Kasurinen to our Core Management Team. He is a highly respected, experienced and accomplished creative leader.  Kasurinen and Järvi have worked together in a number of games, and they have complementary world class skills. With this arrangement, we can ensure the needed focus on growing Alan Wake and Control into larger franchises, and the right type of creative guidance and support that all our game teams can benefit from", Tero Virtala concludes.

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