Activision Blizzard CCO is Stepping Down

gamerant.com:

The chief compliance officer ofActivision Blizzard, Frances Townsend, is set to step down from her post. After Townsend's duties end as the CCO, she will join as an adviser to the company's board and CEO Bobby Kotick. Her tenure as CCO and executive vice president of corporate affairs at Activision Blizzard ends after approximately a year and a half in the company. Before her job at Activision, Townsend was a Homeland Security counter-terrorism adviser to the White House under President George W. Bush.

The Activision Blizzard executive has been under pressure after her comments about the sexual harassment legal case against Activision Blizzard. Townsend was protecting the company by calling the allegations «distorted» and «factually incorrect» in an internal document, although later on walked the statements back, stating that comments were made under legal counsel's guidance. However, she has also been criticized for sharing articles that are insensitive to and dismissive of the case made against Activision Blizzard. One of these occasions was her personal Twitter post sharing an article titled «The Problem With Whistleblowing.»

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Townsend leaves Activision Blizzard at a crucial time for the company. Microsoft has made a bid to buy Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion to better compete with Sony's expanding game studios. Microsoft is confident that the acquisition, initiated in January of this year, will go through. The purchase is under review by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is making sure it doesn't bend any competition legislation, essentially determining whether this would create a monopoly. While the acquisition has been in