Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies at 69 in Crash
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- Claude Guillemot died at 69 in a plane crash in western France, in a story led by Bloomberg and replicated across gaming, tech, and general-news outlets
- Guillemot co-founded Ubisoft Entertainment SA in 1986 with his brothers and also served as chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, per the Bloomberg lead
- Several outlets (Mirror, Fox Business, SFist) report the crash killed two people, with the second victim unnamed in the available coverage
- The Wrap specifies the aircraft was a twin-engine plane; The Next Web places the crash near La Baule
- Gamereactor UK labels Guillemot's Ubisoft role as Executive Vice-President of Operations, a more specific title than the 'co-founder' framing dominant across other outlets
Why it matters: For Ubisoft, the death removes a founding-family member from its leadership lineage; for Guillemot Corporation, the chairman seat now sits vacant. Several outlets confirm a second person died in the crash, whose identity the available coverage does not name.
