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Cambridge, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

London, Gb

Marmalade deliver high quality social games that connect people wherever they are.

Pulsiv is a Cambridge-based deep tech start-up set to revolutionise power conversion and renewable energy generation. Pulsiv technology will significantly cut global CO2 emissions, reduce consumer energy costs, contribute to achieving net zero targets and support the transition to renewable energy.

London, Gb

• TIGA is a multi-award winning non-profit trade association representing the UK's games industry. • Our members represent independent games developers, in-house publisher-owned developers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses, and universities.• TIGA's vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to do games business. Our mission is to fight passionately and tirelessly for the interests of game developers and developer-publishers. • To achieve our vision and mission we focus on three strategic activities: Political campaigning, profile raising and helping our members commercially. • To secure our goals we are intent on building TIGA into an enduring organization, the very best in its field, with a first-class team in order to serve our membership more effectively.

London, Gb

• Serving TIGA as Chairman of the TIGA Publishing sub-group.

London, Gb

• TIGA campaigns for measures to improve: the tax system; access to finance; education and skills; migration policy; and export support. • At TIGA we have focused our resources in particular on the achievement of Games Tax Relief and enhancements to the R&D tax credit system. This is because the achievement of these two measures will make the most material impact on the UK games industry. • We have been successful on both fronts. TIGA campaigned for and helped to achieve an enhanced Small Firms R&D Tax Credit in the March 2011 Budget - worth around an additional £7 million to the UK video games industry per annum. Enhancements to R&D tax credits rebate more money to the games development studios and other high technology businesses. • TIGA has been the only trade association to have consistently campaigned for Games Tax Relief, a sector specific tax break for games production, which substantially reduces the cost of game development in the UK. TIGA secured Games Tax Relief in the March 2010 Budget. This was dropped by the Coalition Government in the June 2010 Budget. TIGA ignored the siren calls to give up and instead continued to wage a vigorous campaign for the introduction of Games Tax Relief. • Finally, TIGA successfully persuaded the Coalition Government in the March 2012 Budget to introduce a tax break for video games development. Tax relief for the video games sector will increase employment, innovation and investment in the UK video games industry and enable us to compete on a level playing field with our overseas competitors. Our research shows that Games Tax Relief should secure 4,660 jobs and £188 million in investment over five years. • This is a significant victory for the UK games development and digital publishing sector and will provide a powerful boost to the industry.

Cambridge, Gb

Investing in smart, fun teams that are passionate about actualizing delightful, innovative, experiences for their customers and spectacular outcomes for talent and shareholders alike.

Centurion Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: ALFUU) is a $250m special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.

Nyc, New York, Us

PlayFusion is currently developing our next title: Ascendant.com

Baltimore, Md, Us

MarketWise is the leading publisher of financial research for self-directed investors.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Baltimore, Md, Us

Baltimore, Md, Us

Baltimore, Md, Us

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

Pioneering next-generation artificial intelligence

Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp is special purpose acquisition company formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses.We intend to focus our search on opportunities where we believe we can capitalize on the experience and expertise of our management team to identify, acquire and potentially operate a business in what we call the “Attention Economy".In will acquire exceptional partner companies, who are passionate about their business, and, aspire to be global leaders in their market.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

• Best known as the makers of the enduring RuneScape free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game. • Today Jagex stands as the UK’s largest independent games developer and publisher, a multi-award winning highly profitable company with over 250 million registered players, generated in excess of $100m in revenue per annum @ 50% profit margin and the proud employer of some 500 of the UK’s most talented professionals.Key Achievements:• Rebuilt Jagex from a single product company with a visibly dated game and rapidly declining popularity through to revitalizing the core franchise and creating multiple new IP’s on multiple platforms at the same time.• Restored RuneScape to growth, following years of successive decline through introducing contemporary gameplay, numerous graphical and performance improvements, enhanced monetization and community engagement. • Increased talent density and diversity within the company.• Three #1 mobiles game hits on the Apple App store.• Sold the company for $250m in December 2010.• Self-funded all publishing, M&A and development initiatives whilst generating significant free cash. • Successfully introduced micropayments to compliment subscription business• Launched RuneScape Old School.• Introduced 'Bonds' a real-world currency for players to trade in-game items and wealth with each other. • Awarded 6 Guinness World Records for record-breaking successes with RuneScape• Acquired the Ace of Spades game IP and technology for $120K, a veritable mashup of Minecraft and Team Fortress which we developed further and launched in December 2012 to make $5M profit.• Hired and developed Phil Mansell, the executive that has gone onto the lead the company to date.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

• I initially joined what was at the time a little known games studio as CTO to take over the technology strategy and talent management of the programmers and engineers from Jagex founder Andrew Gower. • This was an inaugural "Chief" role, second only to the long-established CEO function created when the company was founded in 2001.• Responsible for ensuring the ongoing robust security of the Jagex platform.• Secured PCI DSS level 1 compliance for Jagex for the first time in only a matter of weeks.• Responsible for the management of all the game engines, tools, web systems and IT support teams across the company.• Helped create FunOrb.com, an online mini-games portal with initially just a handful of games we created as spiritual successors to the classic 8 & 16-bit games that we grew up with.

London, Gb

• Served as Principal Security Architect for the UK's National Lottery 3rd Licence.• My primary responsibility was serving as the security domain expert and principal security conduit between Camelot PLC and GTECH Inc on their new $300m technology upgrade.• My role spanned the entire scope of the project with primary responsibility for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and compliance of all the new systems and software platforms whilst balancing the business requirements of timely project delivery and a fixed.• I provided the sales team support during the tender process for the Chinese National Lottery.• During my time at GTECH I also served as the lead on PCI DSS compliance for the Irish, German and Finnish National Lotteries.

• Founder and principal of a specialist cyber-security company providing fully managed security, penetration testing and applied hacking training.• Provide secure communications and data storage services hosted in our former nuclear bunkers converted into data centres.

London, Gb

• I initially joined as CTO responsible for the development of a portfolio of games and collectable multimedia trading cards for the company alongside the management of a web development business. • A year later I was promoted to Chief Operating Officer, with the added responsibility of generating additional revenue streams for the business. During this time I established numerous new B2B services for premium clients such as Warner Bros., MTV Networks Europe, Ministry of Sound, Budweiser, Vodafone, and Volkswagen.• Secured a patent for companies collectible card shaped CD-ROM’s, named 'Cardz' which was initially the companies primary source of revenue. • Produced a series of collectible multimedia Cardz for; entire UEFA Euro 2000 Football series, Manchester United and Arsenal FC’s, NBA, NFL, Westlife, Buffy The Vampire Slayer series.• Created collectible game Cardz for; Dennis the Menace, Titan AE, Stargate SG-1, Outer Limits, Jurassic Park III, Men in Black II, Medabots, Spy Kids 2, Stuart Little 2, Spiderman and the Lord Of The Rings film trilogy.