Daniel Suarez Email & Phone Number

San Fernando Valley, California, Us

As SVP, Head of Studio Operations for Respawn, I work in support of all studio development functions in managing and maximizing effectiveness and efficiency for all of product development. As a business partner to the Group General Manager, my focus is to collaborate with multiple cross development and executive publishing stakeholders within Electronic Arts to drive organizational capabilities focused on long term innovation and growth, ensuring exceptional AAA games and Live Operation services for millions of players around the world.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Since 2005, Suarez’s primary focus at Activision has been production leadership on the Call of Duty franchise. As Call of Duty’s Vice President of Production, Suarez oversaw multiple internal development studios including Treyarch, Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, Raven Software and multiple external teams in producing the launch of each annual mainline release. Suarez is responsible for ensuring quality, scheduling and budgeting franchise-wide resources and maintaining efficient cross-functional communication and collaboration across all key publishing and development stakeholders to meet the franchise's quality, sales and budget targets. In that period of time, Call of Duty has become one of the most successful and acclaimed gaming franchises in the world, becoming the top selling console title consecutively from 2008-2015, generating over $10+ billion dollars in retail sales. In his role, Suarez also oversees production of the digital content pipeline (Season Pass, DLC, Micro-transactions) to support monetization, E-Sports and other key franchise initiatives. In addition, Suarez also oversees the free-to-play expansion of the brand into China with regional partner Tencent and the development and live operations of multiple iOS and android mobile apps including Call of Duty: Heroes and the top grossing Call of Duty: Zombies. Prior to working on Call of Duty, Suarez was the Executive Producer on multiple console, handheld, PC and mobile projects across various franchises including Hasbro’s Transformers and DreamWorks Animation properties.

Suarez co-founded and established an independent mobile studio focused on creating mobile applications for various publishers and brands including Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Univision, Def Jam and Jamdat.As Vice President of Product Development, Suarez and his team were responsible delivering great products on small budgets and development timelines to meet clients portfolio requirements. Key responsibilities included managing the day-to-day studio operations, resource planning, product management, business development and developer / contractor due dilligence for outsourcing needs worldwide.

Us

Suarez was responsible for managing multiple external development teams worldwide on a variety of console projects for Universal Interactive, Black Label Games and Vivendi Games.Suarez helped established a new publishing brand within Vivendi Games called Black Label Games, and executive produced a portfolio of projects including the acclaimed Scarface and The Chronicles of Riddick. To this day, Chronicles of Riddick is considered one of the best Hollywood and Game Industry collaborations earning critical and consumer praise worldwide.Suarez was also the Lead Producer on the Crash Bandicoot franchise from 2000 - 2002 overseeing the launch on next generation systems (PS2, Xbox and Game Cube) and expansion to Nintendo platforms (GBA).

Burbank, Ca, Us