Patrice Désilets is a French Canadian videogame designer best known for creating the ASSASSIN'S CREED series during his time as creative director as Ubisoft. After the completion of ASSASSIN'S CREED: BROTHERHOOD in 2010, Désilets left Ubisoft though returned in 2011, working for the THQ Montreal studio which had been recently sold to Ubisoft in an auction. Désilets again left Ubisoft in 2013 and launched a new independent game studio in Montreal, Panache Digital Games. In 2015, Désilets announced the first game being developed and published by Panache, ANCESTORS: THE HUMANKIND ODYSSEY, a historic third-person action-adventure game.