Mariana Chucri has been navigating between two worlds often more associated with men: finance and video games. The current McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA participant has worked as a finance manager for nearly ten years in the video game industry. She has worked in a number of the leaders in the Montreal video game industry including Electronic Arts, THQ, Ubisoft and Eidos. She recently took a leap into the field of virtual reality, taking on the role of Director of Finance at Felix & Paul Studios.
Felix & Paul Studios specializes in storytelling through cinematic virtual reality, and have developed the technology to support this. In 2015, the founders Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael were named to the Creativity 50 list of Advertising Age magazine and were selected to the “Digital Entertainment Impact Report: 30 Execs to Watch” in Variety magazine. As part of their management team, Mariana will certainly apply some of the knowledge and self-confidence that she has developed during her EMBA.
In facts, she thinks that in all new challenges:: «The strongest factor for success is self-esteem: believingyou can do it, believing you deserve it, and believing you’ll get it …”
