Jeanne-Marie Owens

Founder & COO, Critical Path Games Board Chair

Jeanne-Marie was the first employee at Phoenix Labs, the Vancouver-based game development studio behind Dauntless and Fae Farm. She led teams in recruiting, HR, finance, legal, IT, and operations as it grew from a small start-up to a 350 person multinational company.  In 2024, she co-founded Critical Path Games, a small new game development studio with the ambitious goal of creating a new game genre.

Jeanne-Marie joined the board of DigiBC in 2019 and currently serves as the Vice-Chair as well as the lead for the Video Games Group Committee. Her efforts were critical to the development of the new Creative Technology Gallery at Science World – a project that was a co-creation of Science World, DigiBC, Phoenix Labs, other member studios, and NGX Interactive. Jeanne-Marie is a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, and has been invited to speak internationally as a consultant and commentator on DE&I and building great teams in the games industry. In 2021, she was named to the Business in Vancouver (BIV) Forty Under 40 list.

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