The management changes at Cloud Imperium Games continue with a new name added to the conversation. Someone on the Star Citizen sub-Reddit noticed a change on the company's About page. But when I heard the news I saw not one, but three changes as two people have been dropped from the page in the last week.
Here is the update since the About page was last archived on 30 January.
Elliot Chin - According to his LinkedIn page, Chin is still the Chief Marketing Officer for Cloud Imperium. Back in December Insider Gaming reported an office rumor that Sandi Gardiner was returning to CIG to take over her old role. The rumors started swirling further when Bored Gamer received information indicating Chin was one of three executives with a combined 25 years experience at CIG being moved out of the company. With his removal from the leadership page on the corporate website, the possibility grows a little more realistic.
Dr. Martin Franz - Cloud Imperium's chief legal officer, Franz came into notice when UK Companies House posted he had resigned from his position as the corporate secretary. At that point the question arose whether Dr. Franz was stepping down from what has become a thankless position over the last two years or was something bigger. CIG removing him from the leadership page hints at something bigger.
Tony Zurovec - Perhaps the biggest name on this list, last week the developer known as "Tony Z" was listed as the Persistent Universe Game Director. On the current version of the About page, he's listed as Game Director Emeritus, indicating he is no longer involved in day-to-day operations at CIG.
Zurovec was best known to myself as the developer in charge of developing Star Citizen's (and presumably Squadron 42's) economic system and gameplay. At last year's CitizenCon, the announcement of the vision of Star Citizen 1.0 seemed to indicate much of the work Zurovec had done was no longer relevant. His new title of Game Director Emeritus indicates his role, if any, in the future is purely advisory.
I did hear a rumor in a video that Zurovec is still present due to an ownership interest in Cloud Imperium. As far as I know that is not the case. Here is the current list of people with an ownership stake in CIG after stripping away the holding companies.
- Chris Roberts - 71.1%
- The Calders - 21.3%
- Keith Calder - 20.7%
- Clive Calder - 0.6%
- Erin Roberts - 4.7%
- Eli Klein - 2.4%
- Marc Deaudet - 0.2%
- Benoit Beausejour - 0.2%
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