Wizards of the Coast president Cynthia Williams is leaving the company at the end of the month. An SEC filing disclosed that Cynthia Williams, the president of Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Gaming, had informed Hasbro that she was leaving the company as of April 26th. Per the SEC filing, Hasbro is conducing a process to identify her successor,"looking at both internal and external candidates." ComicBook.com has reached out to Wizards of the Coast for comment.
Williams joined Wizards of the Coast just over two years ago, having joined Hasbro from Microsoft, where she served as the General Manager and Vice President of the Gaming Ecosystem Commercial Team and helped drive the expansion of Xbox Gaming. Williams also worked for Amazon as part of their e-commerce direct-to-consumer business. Williams took over the job vacated by Chris Cocks, who became the overall CEO of Hasbro.
Under Williams' leadership, Wizards of the Coast helped grow Hasbro's most profitable business line, with Wizards earning over $1 billion in 2023.
While head of Wizards of the Coast, Williams oversaw the subsidiary increasingly pivot towards digital formats, with Wizards adding several in-house game studios to release games under a mix of existing and new IPs and aggressively working with outside companies to license D&D games.
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