Abhi Ramprasad

Chief Strategy Officer Riot Games

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Abhi Ramprasad is Chief Strategy Officer at Riot Games, the Los Angeles developer and publisher behind League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics and Legends of Runeterra. Riot built its business on a single free-to-play title and has since become a multi-studio company with its own esports leagues, music and animation operations, which makes the strategy seat unusually broad: Ramprasad shapes long-term strategy, drives cross-company initiatives and forges partnerships, and his remit covers Corporate Strategy, Business Health and Analytics, Corporate Development, Platform and Strategic Partnerships, and the Office of the CEO. He arrived in 2021 from McKinsey & Company, where he spent close to a decade advising technology and consumer businesses internationally, and he started out on the other side of the craft entirely, as a software developer at Yahoo!.

Career Highlights

• Serves on Riot Games’ company leadership team as Chief Strategy Officer, listed alongside the chief executive, the co-founders, the CFO, the Chief People Officer and the General Counsel.
• Holds one of the broadest mandates on that team: Corporate Strategy, Business Health and Analytics, Corporate Development, Platform and Strategic Partnerships, and the Office of the CEO all report into his function.
• Joined Riot Games in 2021, the year the company was expanding beyond League of Legends into a portfolio of separately run studios and titles.
• Spent close to a decade at McKinsey & Company serving technology and consumer companies around the world, working across several countries.
• Began his career as a software developer at Yahoo! before moving into business and strategy work — a technical foundation unusual for a corporate-strategy chief.
• Educated as a computer engineer at India’s National Institute of Technology, then took an M.B.A. at the Indian Institute of Management.

Professional Journey

Ramprasad’s career started in engineering rather than in strategy. He worked as a developer at Yahoo! before making a deliberate move into business, and that early technical grounding is the thread that connects an otherwise conventional consulting-to-industry path.

The consulting stretch was substantial. He spent close to a decade at McKinsey & Company, serving technology and consumer companies on a wide range of topics and working in several countries along the way. That combination — a global technology and consumer client base, plus a background in software — is the profile game publishers reach for when the business outgrows a single title.

He joined Riot Games in 2021. As Chief Strategy Officer he shapes the company’s long-term strategy, drives critical cross-company initiatives and forges partnerships, with Corporate Strategy, Business Health and Analytics, Corporate Development, Platform and Strategic Partnerships, and the Office of the CEO under him. The grouping is telling: at Riot the strategy function is not an advisory staff role but an operating one, holding both the analytics that tell the company how its games are performing and the corporate-development machinery that buys, invests and partners.

Riot is privately held and majority owned by Tencent, so there is no proxy statement or annual report naming its officers. The company’s own leadership page is the authoritative public record of who holds which seat, and it lists Ramprasad in this role as of September 2026.

Education

National Institute of Technology (India)

Bachelor’s degree, Computer Engineering

Indian Institute of Management

M.B.A.