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I am an entrepreneur and experienced games industry professional with over 25 years commercial, technical and corporate development experience as a Founder and Director of private and public companies. I believe the potential for Virtual Reality today is exceptional. I have been involved with VR for 30 years, initially experiencing it in my first job with British Aerospace as a part of the avionics team I was working with. In the mid-90's I worked with the very early consumer VR technology building games and commercial training solutions. I founded Focal Point VR in 2015 when it became clear that consumer VR 2.0 was going to become a reality. I have a team of talented and exceptionally capable co-founders from the games industry and we aim to bring the experience we have of creating interactive experiences to non-games VR. Since founding my first business in 1989 I have led both private and public fund raising activities, business acquisitions and disposals. As CEO of games developer Kuju I oversaw the organic growth of the business from a single project studio to public floatation on the London AIM market in 2002, and on to become one of the UK's most successful multi-site developers employing more than 300 people with studios around the world.
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CeoFocal Point Vr Ltd Sep 2015 - PresentGuildford, England, GbFocal Point VR is building a socially enabled livestream VR platform. The founders of Focal Point are veterans of the games industry and are bringing their experience of crafting social and interactive experiences to live VR video. Using the platform viewers will be ‘teleported’ to remote locations (sports events, music festivals etc) and as well as being immersed in full 360 video and audio they will be able to see and talk with friends sharing the same live VR experience. -
PartnerTenshi Partners Mar 2010 - PresentGbSince co-founding Tenshi Partners I led the partnership's games funding, access to finance, investment readiness, business strategy and due diligence business lines. In this role I trained and mentored a large number of start-up and early stage games companies and supported them through their early development. In addition I negotiated and managed Tenshi's provision of project finance for a number of games. I also undertook due diligence for larger investors during their pre-investment decision making process. Since founding Focal Point VR (with the backing of Tenshi) I have taken a non-executive role in the Partnership. -
Non-Exec DirectorChilled Mouse Ltd Feb 2014 - PresentI co-founded new games production studio Chilled Mouse with Ian Baverstock to develop and publish a number of exciting new projects for the digital distribution games market. Our first title - Warhammer Quest - was successfully launched in Jan 2015. Our next title - Chime 2 / www.chimegame.com / is in development. -
Co Founder And DirectorGameroyale Ltd Jan 2013 - Dec 2014Gameroyale was an SPV setup to acquire a share in the the Indie Royale and Daily Royale Indie games distribution platforms. I setup the business, and ran the acquisition and recent successful sale of our share in the platforms. Between the purchase and sale I ran the operational, legal and financial side of the business.
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CeoKuju Plc May 2002 - Mar 2010Croydon, London, GbAt the start of 2002 I lead the successful flotation of Kuju onto the London AIM market and took the position of CEO. In addition to my role of CEO of a public company I continued to drive the growth of Kuju as it moved from a UK based developer to become the second largest independent games developer with studios in Europe, the US and Asia developing hit games in multiple genres across all platforms. -
Managing DirectorKuju Plc Mar 1998 - Apr 2002Croydon, London, GbI led the MBO of the Simis studio within Eidos to create Kuju Entertainment in 1998 where I took the role of Managing Director. The studio started at 35 staff based in Godalming mainly focused on developing flight simulators and grew to ~80 staff by the start of 2003 with multiple studios developing a broad range of games content for all major platforms. Turnover grew from £1.8million in 1998/9 to £6.1 million in 2002/3. As MD I was responsible for all of the operational and production aspects of the business as well as its overall leadership.
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Founder / DirectorSimis Ltd Nov 1989 - Feb 1998I co-founded Simis with three colleges from British Aerospace all of whom shared the desire to build a technically and creatively lead new business. As Simis grew I took the leading role in the games part of the business providing technical, creative and strategic leadership. I was lead programmer on all of our flight simulator games from 1990 until 1994 developing titles including AV8B Harrier Assault and Flight Sim Toolkit. In 1995 I lead the sale of the games division to our major customer (Domark/Eidos) and remained as Technical Director of the studio until 1998. -
Avionics EngineerBritish Aerospace Sep 1985 - Nov 1989London, GbI joined BAe as a graduate engineer and worked in the research team within the avionics and computing division which developer airborne software for the Hawk and Harrier. My roles involved developing tools and novel technologies to support the creating of test rigs. I worked with Prolog, LISP, Ada, amongst other languages; I developer a LISP interpreter which was used as the basis for test rig development and evaluated new languages for the department introducing C++ in 1988.
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University Of YorkPhysics And Computer Science
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