So I was looking at my tweeter feed and I follow Darrell Gallagher (Studio Head) for The Initiative and he posted the following:
Basically a link to a LinkedIn page listing new members of The Initiative. So I scoped out the link and these are the new members of the Initiative:
I don't know any of who those folks are, but something told me to grab some screenshots and I did. I then shared out the link to the tweet in the Xbox discord for Era and we found out that he deleted the tweet. A member of the discord chat (Slicerdyster) did some quick work on googling those fine folks and this is what we found out:
- Brian Westergaard worked on GoW (2018) as the lead producer.
- Annie Lohr is the recruiter and worked at Respawn.
- Christian Cantamessa - the writer from rdr is at the company.
- Blake Fischer - Senior Director of Portfolio Planning for MS, but now working with The Initiative.
- Daniel Neuburger & Lindsey McQueeney are from Crystal Dynamics.
So, looks like they are getting talented folks for this studio which makes this extremely exciting considering the games they worked on and the studio's their from. Thoughts?
Edit: Provided a bit more detail on where these hires are from.