SPEAKERS
ROD BRESLAU
#1 Esports Consultant and Insider
Self-proclaimed
ROD BRESLAU
#1 Esports Consultant and Insider
Self-proclaimed
Rod "Slasher" Breslau is an American veteran of competitive gaming and esports as a broadcaster, analyst and reporter. He is a well known community figure in all things Fighting games, Starcraft, Quake, Overwatch and many more. Surrounded for good or bad with controversy, Slasher is one of the most outspoken esports influencers reporting on the industry daily.
Ian Smith
Commissioner
ESIC
Ian Smith
Commissioner
ESIC
Ian Smith is the Esports Integrity Commissioner. He has had that role since ESIC was founded in July 2016 and is now a well-established senior presence in the global esports ecosystem. Ian is a UK lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in traditional sports, primarily in regulation and governance. His particular focus has always been the connection between the athlete and the rules and regulations that govern the athletes’ professional life. Ian was legal director of the Professional Cricketers’ Association in the UK for over a decade and was responsible for advising players on a range of issues, but also negotiating, on their behalf, the contracts, rules and regulations that applied to them, such as the Anti-Doping and Anti-Corruption Codes. For two years between 2013 and 2015 Ian also ran the Federation of International Cricketers Associations (FICA), the umbrella body for all the Player Associations in International cricket, which meant he dealt with the terms and conditions under which players participated in the Cricket World Cup and was the player representative on the Security Directorate of all major events through to 2015. He sat on the Athletes Committee of UK Anti-Doping for five years. Currently, he is also Head of Integrity for the PGA European Tour golf.
Anna Baumann
Managing Director and General Counsel
Rogue Sports Europe GmbH
Sam Cooke
Co-founder and Managing Director
Esports Insider
Sam Cooke
Co-founder and Managing Director
Esports Insider
Co-founder and Managing Director of Esports Insider, a leading and global B2B esports industry news platform, agency, events and media company. ESI is also a co-owner in joint ventures The Esports Journal, and the WFH League.
Spike Laurie
Venture Director
Hiro Capital
Spike Laurie
Venture Director
Hiro Capital
Spike is a games industry and esports professional with experience building production and business infrastructure across three continents and driving large, multi million dollar revenue pipelines.
Spike is Venture Director for Hiro Capital a €100 million venture capital fund investing in the innovators of the future.
Patrick Mahoney
CEO
We Are Nations Inc
Patrick Mahoney
CEO
We Are Nations Inc
Patrick Mahoney is the CEO and co-founder of the We Are Nations Group, a leader in esports merchandise design, sales and distribution worldwide. We Are Nations clients include Riot Games/LCS, Optic Gaming, G2 Esports, Team Liquid, Cloud 9, Faceit/ECS, Starladder, NASR and many other leading global esports brands. We Are Nations was founded by Patrick and Chris Cornell in 2016, and is a sister company to Manhead Merchandising, a recognizable name in the music and entertainment merchandise space, with clients that include Panic At The Disco, Fall Out Boy and Weezer. In his spare time, Patrick is a competitive master’s cyclist on the road and in cyclocross events. He is married with one teenage son and lives in the greater Nashville area in Tennessee, USA.
Christie St. Martin
CEO
Gamers.vote
Christie St. Martin
CEO
Gamers.vote
Chief Executive Officer of Gamers.Vote, a nonpartisan, non-profit organization that encourages and supports the act of participation, Gamers.Vote leads a coalition of various organizations as a unifying brand to make voting a priority. We hope gamers will register and vote so that their voices may be heard.
No issues No party affiliations No political agendas. We send people directly to the Vote.gov.
Any company, streamer, or celebrity will decide what promotions fit them and their audience best. We ideate, strategize, and help our partners with any part of their initiative as they desire our involvement.
Seb Carmichael-Brown
Commercial Director
Hashtag United
Seb Carmichael-Brown
Commercial Director
Hashtag United
Commercial Director for Hashtag United and Owner of Next Level Talent agency.
Golfing broadcasters and content creator.
Jamie MacLaurin
Chief Sporting Officer and Co-Founder -
Veloce Esports
Jamie MacLaurin
Chief Sporting Officer and Co-Founder -
Veloce Esports
Co-Founder of Veloce Esports and Team Manager of the Alfa Romeo Racing F1 Esports Team.
Darren Cox
President and CEO
Torque Esports
Darren Cox
President and CEO
Torque Esports
Darren is a motor industry innovator with over 20 years experience. His previous success with Nissan and Sony in coming up with the concept of GT Academy and deploying it for 8 years paved the way for Esports within the racing game genre and is still considered to be the benchmark to this day. Darren has since founded two gaming focused companies and has remained at the forefront at the crossover of gaming and racing, launching the Worlds Fastest Gamer Brand and working behind the scenes with some of the biggest Brands in F1, gaming and the automotive industry.
David Martin
Director
Esports Global
David Martin
Director
Esports Global
David is a professional services and corporate finance adviser with over 20 years’ experience acquired in government and private enterprise. David has a deep knowledge of the esports sector both in investments and as a co-owner of the London Royal Ravens Call of Duty franchise.
Heather Dower
Founder and Managing Director
Hotdrop
Heather Dower
Founder and Managing Director
Hotdrop
Heather Dower is the Founder and CEO of the creative marketing agency, Hotdrop. Who specialize in engaging digital demographics across multiple mediums across gaming, esports and lifestyle. Heather became MCV's 30 under 30 in 2021 following the huge success with the growth and clientele Hotdrop have garnered within their first years.
Competitive at heart, Heather has always pushed herself to excel & grow within the industry leading her to set up Hotdrop in late 2019. Starting her journey in gaming as a streamer in early 2011, Heather quickly learned how to optimise a personal brand and developed expertise in the emerging market of esports & gaming influencers by becoming a successful brand influencer and esports broadcaster.
She cemented her broadcasting skills by becoming the Producer and Host of the world's first daily esports news show ‘The Daily Download’ broadcasting live in 55 countries.
Joining ESL UK in 2018, Heather applied her industry experience in her role as the UK’s Marketing Director. She led the marketing and creative teams through various leading global properties, brand activations, charitable events as well as pioneering new IP product development.
Marco Blume
Trading Director
Pinnacle
Marco Blume
Trading Director
Pinnacle
Marco’s path into the world of sports betting stemmed from his interest in poker. After a few years playing poker professionally, he was introduced to Pinnacle by a friend from the Magic the Gathering scene (a card game built on game theory and probability). Marco quickly moved on from simply trading sports and has spent 10 of his 12 years with Pinnacle as the company’s Trading Director. Within his role, Marco oversees all trading activity for Pinnacle and has played a vital role in the growth of esports betting for the online bookmaker.
Yinsu Collins
Freelance Journalist
Yinsu Collins
Freelance Journalist
Yinsu Collins is a freelance esports correspondent at Red Bull UK and part-time esports host and presenter.
Sujoy Roy
Esports Director
Midnite
Sujoy Roy
Esports Director
Midnite
Sujoy was the UK’s first professional gamer and has more than 20 years’ experience in esports. Sujoy played a significant role in the early growth of the industry, and now specialises in esports betting acquisition at London-based startup, Midnite.Sujoy was the UK’s first professional gamer and has more than 20 years’ experience in esports. Sujoy played a significant role in the early growth of the industry, and now specialises in esports betting acquisition at London-based startup, Midnite.
Adam Savinson
Esports Director - BG Marketing Services
Betway Group
Adam Savinson
Esports Director - BG Marketing Services
Betway Group
Adam Savinson has been Head of Esports at Betway group, since May 2015. Adam’s passion for Esports and wealth of experience in Digital Marketing has helped drive Betway’s fast paced growth within the Esports Betting industry.
Charlie Allen
Director, Global Brand Partnerships
ESL
Charlie Allen
Director, Global Brand Partnerships
ESL
Charlie Allen has nearly 20 years experience of working across the media, sports & entertainment industry. Before joining the world of esports, he headed up commercial partnerships in EMEA for FOX Sports here in London, helping global brands to engage FOX Networks audiences across multiple pan-regional media networks. As part of the global ESL team, Charlie now heads up Brand Partnerships from here in the UK to work with brands and help them engage ESL's global esports audiences.
Stepan Shulga
Head of Esports
Parimatch
Stepan Shulga
Head of Esports
Parimatch
After a year of working as an external consultant for the Parimatch holding, in 2019 Stepan joined the company for the position of Head of Esports to work with the most promising category of digital entertainment, slightly different from traditional sports.
Innovations in the approach to attracting customers, specialized retailers for the esports audience are realized in close cooperation with the marketing team of the holding and the regions. It has led to the most intensive growth of the category in the entire history of the holding. The main task is to offer young esports audience a high level of online service that meets the needs of the audience, while not losing the identity of a serious and large betting company offering high-quality
services to its customers. Long-term expertise as an executive producer, organizer of esports broadcasts and world-class events helps Stepan to feel the needs of the esports audience and offer the mechanics
closest to young people. Stepan is one of the “evangelists” of esports among all Russian-speaking experts. He is considered to be one of the most experienced speakers and industry, not only in terms
of betting but also in terms of the commercial attractiveness of esports for brands and the encouraging future of esports as part of the world culture generally. An eventful career includes working in
one of the most successful football clubs in Eastern Europe, as a journalist, TV presenter, producer, event director, broadcast director, media manager and other professions that require a high level
of communication and working skills with people..
Quentin Martin
CEO
Luckbox.com
Quentin Martin
CEO
Luckbox.com
Over a decade of experience in digital leadership across ecommerce, gambling, and mobile gaming - most recently as CEO of Luckbox.com - esports betting done right and previously as social casino at The Stars Group; reinforced with a past life as a professional gamer - early esports, poker, and Magic the Gathering.
Moritz Maurer
CEO & Founder
GRID esports
Moritz Maurer
CEO & Founder
GRID esports
Moritz Maurer, has more than 8 years of experience pioneering at the intersection of esports, data & betting. After creating the first UK- licenced esports bookmaker – GGwins – and later launching the world first in-play esports betting solution in 2015, Moritz focused on unlocking the potential of official data assets for some of the biggest rights holders in esports.
This vision culminated in the creation GRID, an innovative data & technology platform in esports which is leading the way in data solutions for teams, leagues and brands in esports.
Alban Dechelotte
Head of Partnerships & Business Development
Riot Games
Alban Dechelotte
Head of Partnerships & Business Development
Riot Games
Before joining Riot Games in 2018, Alban led the Gaming and Esports agenda at the Coca-Cola Company including the rule-breaking global partnership with Riot Games since 2014. During his five-year tenure at the Atlanta based company, he also led some award-winning campaigns such as the 2013 Coca-Cola Zero partnership with PlayStation Europe, the 2014 partnership with Ubisoft Just Dance to promote active healthy living and in 2017 he signed the first Coca-Cola virtual athlete Alex Hunter endorsement from the EA Sports FIFA franchise.
Previously, he worked for 10 years at Havas Sports & Entertainment on clients such as Adidas, Hyundai, Sparkasse, Lacoste, Europcar, Unilever or Louis Vuitton. Prior to joining Havas, he studied international business, sports, and marketing at ESSEC Business School in France and at Fachhochschule Dortmund, Germany.
Alban has worked in the US, China, Egypt, Germany, and France. A former youth international rugby player and still in love, he is a passionate player of League of Legends and sources inspiration in street art and scuba diving.
Erik Anderson
Head of Esports
FaZe Clan
Erik Anderson
Head of Esports
FaZe Clan
Erik Anderson is Head of Esports for FaZe Clan, one of the largest gaming and esports organizations in the world. Over the past three years he has led all esports strategy and operations for the brand. Prior to esports he worked in the music industry as a part of the management team for US based artist Kid Rock. Erik currently lives in Los Angeles California, is a graduate of Princeton University, and sits on the executive board for the World Esports Association.
Kirsty Endfield
Founder & Director
Swipe Right PR
Kirsty Endfield
Founder & Director
Swipe Right PR
Kirsty is the Founder & Director of Swipe Right, the leading esports and video game communications agency. Kirsty, has a wealth of experience in marketing and outreach strategies in video games with over ten years experience and was one of PCR's Top 30 Women in Mobile and MCV's 30 Under 30. She set up Swipe Right six years ago after seeing a gap in the market for esports communications. Swipe Right was the first agency to offer dedicated esports communications services alongside video games and the team now manages some of the biggest brands in the industry including Red Bull, FACEIT and Team Vitality supporting esports teams, platforms and 10,000 attendee tournaments.
Seth Schorr
CEO
Fifth Street Gaming
Seth Schorr
CEO
Fifth Street Gaming
Seth Schorr is CEO of Fifth Street Gaming and Chairman of Downtown Grand Hotel & Casino. The urban casino resort is the embodiments of Schorr’s vision to create a downtown Las Vegas hospitality experience delivering a superior guest experience and genuine sense of community.
In early 2015, Schorr was introduced to the world of esports and lead the effort of developing the first fully integrated esports program in a casino resort at The Downtown Grand. The Downtown Grand’s esports program has included weekly esports contests, team residencies and sponsorships, a weekly broadcast and professional tournaments. Schorr sits on the board of GameCo and advised on the development and launch of the world’s first video game slot machine. Schorr has invested in esport orgs, built arenas and produced events. In 2017 Schorr launched Commercial Streaming Solutions which developed a patent-pending media platform that provides streaming content, including esports and sports betting content, to retail venues. Schorr is the co-founder of the Nevada Esports Alliance and continues to be a leader in the convergence of esports and sports gambling.
Tomaso Portunato
CEO & Co-founder
Platform
Darren Traub
Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine
Darren Traub
Partner
Davis Wright Tremaine
Darren has a full-service practice at the intersection of entertainment and technology, with a focus in experiential and immersive events, music, gaming, and lifestyle brands. As a thought leader on legal issues facing the esports and gaming ecosystem, Darren represents all segments of the industry, including leagues, teams, publishers, events, product providers, content creators, media companies, marketing companies, tournament providers, and investors. He provides business counsel and legal solutions to a variety of industry-related transactions, with a focus on team and league organization; licensing, promotions, and sponsorships; tournament and event production; and litigation.
Tatiana Tacca
Gaming & Esports Consultant
TT.GG Advisory
Tatiana Tacca
Gaming & Esports Consultant
TT.GG Advisory
Tatiana Tacca leads the esports and gaming practice at Momentum Worldwide, delivering consultation, sponsorship strategy, and experiential activation for brands. She is an esports and gaming industry expert with 9 years in the space, managing sponsorship across multiple brand categories including telecom, payment, CPG, airlines, spirits and more. She has worked on and executed deals with multiple esports properties including Activision Blizzard, Twitch, Riot Games, TSM and Cloud9. Before that, she led the marketing strategy, game launches, and content updates of over 20 mobile licensed game titles including Marvel, Disney/Pixar, Halo, Lucasfilm, Fox, NFL, NBA and MLB.
David Fenlon
Managing Director
Media Exchange Group
David Fenlon
Managing Director
Media Exchange Group
I am a commercial consultant by background, having advised dozens of multinational brands on key strategic investment decisions across various sectors. I specialise in the entertainment industry, working with some of the largest global brands. I have worked with Activision Blizzard and Riot Games on their events (game launches and esports) in the video gaming sector; Universal Music Group in the music sector; and Sky Betting & Gaming in the gambling sector. I have deep experience in the sports sector, having played, coached and managed various formats of rugby at a high level. I also have an acute understanding of the commercial pressures in modern sport: I chair the sponsorships committee for the Oxford Cambridge varsity match as a non-executive director. This combined breadth and depth of experience provides the platform for viewing esports in the context of the larger entertainment market, and the potential opportunities within it when compared to other mediums.
Fabio La Franca
Investment Director
Station12 Ventures
Fabio La Franca
Investment Director
Station12 Ventures
Fabio is an investment director at Station12, a venture capital fund based in London specialised in Sport, Entertainment and Knowledge and the emerging technologies enabling or supporting the sector like mixed reality, AI and blockchain. He is also an Expert and Rapporteur at the European Commission for the Horizon2020 €80bn R&D funding programme and a member of the European Innovation Council.
Herb May
Director of Corporate Partnerships
Houston Outlaws
Herb May
Director of Corporate Partnerships
Houston Outlaws
I have a passion for connection. My love and passion for football lead me through a terrific early career with Baltimore Ravens, Ole Miss Rebels, and National Football League.
I have shifted that passion and energy towards to the new and exciting esports industry. With my business development and sales experience cultivated from my time in traditional sports, I have been able to bring together unique growth opportunities within the esports ecosystem.
I truly believe esports and gaming is the next generation of athlete and will be one of most profitable industries we have ever seen. I am thrilled to be apart of it and am committed to its growth.
Akshat Rathee
Co-Founder & Managing Director
NODWIN Gaming
Akshat Rathee
Co-Founder & Managing Director
NODWIN Gaming
Akshat is an experienced Serial entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the startup space. His tradtional experience has been in the management consulting industry with Ernst & Young. He is currently invested into esports and Gaming.
Akshat has a proven track record of multiple exits, the latest being the partial exit of NODWIN Gaming to Nazara Games and ESL.
Akshat founded NODWIN Gaming in 2016 and has grown it to be the largest esports firm in South Asia and among the top 5 in the world.
NODWIN Gaming works actively in creating large scale esports IPs that it monetises through esports and media rights.
Akshat has expanded NODWIN Gaming to the Middle East and South Africa from the South Asian base.
Akshat is skilled in Management, Business Development, Training. His areas of expertise are Gaming, Telecommunications and Venture Capital.
Akshat has strong business development and marketing skills and is a seasoned industry professional with a focus on leadership from Aspen Global Leadership Initiative.
Jeffrey Chau
CEO
GameGether, Inc.
Jeffrey Chau
CEO
GameGether, Inc.
Jeff has been at ground zero for the beginning of mobile esports and was GM/Head of Mobile Immortals Gaming Club; Mobile Esports Consultant to TSM; Team Liquid; Analyst Commentator for the 18th Asia Games Jakarta-Palembang, World Cyber Games Xi'an 2019, Tencent Games, Supercell, Red Bull Esports, Super League Gaming, and Super Evil Megacorp; and former mobile esports professional player, head coach, esports org founder/owner, Twitch Partnered Streamer, and mobile game tournament & league owner/administrator.
Jeff has been a speaker on mobile esports at the Sports Business Journal's 2019 Lagardère Sports Esports Rising: What's the Future of Mobile Gaming, World Cyber Games (WCG) Xi'an 2019, moderator for Inven Global Esports Conference 2019 on Mobile Esports: The World’s Largest Niche Community, and panel speaker at GamesBeat, PAX West, and XLive Esports Summit.
Mika Kuusisto
Chief Executive Officer
ENCE Esports Oy
Mika Kuusisto
Chief Executive Officer
ENCE Esports Oy
Mika Kuusisto is the CEO of ENCE Esports Oy. He comes with 20 years of experience growing technology and games companies on a global scale. In addition to running ENCE Mika keeps advising early stage tech startups with their growth strategies.
Previously he was a Chief Revenue Officer at Outfit7 in charge of all revenue streams for a mobile games company with 4 billion downloads and 250 million monthly active users. Before joining Outfit7 he lead global business development for Unity Ads, which under his leadership grew to be the biggest independent video ad network for games. He has been working with mobile games and apps since 2002.
Carlos Alimurung
CEO
ONE Esports
Carlos Alimurung
CEO
ONE Esports
Carlos is the CEO of ONE Esports, the esports arm of ONE Championship, Asia’s largest global sports media property. He is responsible for the overall vision and execution of ONE Esports' strategy and has P&L ownership of the business. Carlos joined ONE Esports as the former Chief Business Officer of Battlefy, the world’s largest open esports competition platform.
Prior to Battlefy, Carlos worked at Univision, where as SVP of Corporate Business Development, he was responsible for corporate venture investments. Carlos also previously served as the Head of Strategy for LG Electronics’ North America consumer electronics business.
Carlos began his career as a management consultant at Marakon Associates, where he advised clients in the US, UK, Brazil, and Singapore. He also served in the AmeriCorps*NCCC program, helping communities in the US and Puerto Rico across a wide spectrum of needs.
He was awarded a McKinsey & Company Fellowship during his MBA at MIT Sloan, and he graduated Cum Laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Edward Gregory
Senior Partnerships Manager
Fnatic
Edward Gregory
Senior Partnerships Manager
Fnatic
Edward started his career in South Africa at Sports Agency, Accelerate Sport, where he progressed from Key Accounts Executive to CEO at the age of 27. He oversaw significant commercial growth for the National Federations they represented (Netball, Surfing, Squash, COSAFA) as well as compiled the successful bid to bring the Netball World Cup to Cape Town in 2023.
Since joining Fnatic, he has overseen BMW's hugely successful entrance into the market, including their nominations for multiple awards. He also helped negotiate Gucci's first entrance into the space through their limited edition Dive watch collaboration, while managing a number of other partners in the Fnatic stable including newly announced ASOS.
Skyler Johnson
Co-Founder / Creative Director
CTRL - A Meal Replacement
Skyler Johnson
Co-Founder / Creative Director
CTRL - A Meal Replacement
Skyler Johnson is a former American Football collegiate athlete turned Esports Professional Call of Duty player & founder of Team Envy (Dallas Fuel & Dallas Empire). He then took a job in 2013 at GFUEL Energy and helped developed their flavor profiles, launch campaigns, partnerships as the Chief Creative Officer.
During this time he also developed a 13+ year understanding for scaling business inside of the gaming/Esports space and the world of sports nutrition.
In late 2017, he stepped away from that position and became the Creative Director for Latium Enterprises, developing internal brands for the family while handling creative for this pre-existing ones. While taking a giant leap and bringing a couple of companies to light himself.
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David Gowans
Head of Creative Technologies, Games & Esports
Barclays
David Gowans
Head of Creative Technologies, Games & Esports
Barclays
As Head of Creative Technologies, Games & Esports for Barclays Ventures, David is responsible for leading activity in Barclays, in its work in supporting the Games Industry and activity in Esports.
Eric Johnson
CEO
EGF
Eric Johnson
CEO
EGF
Eric Johnson joined EGF as CEO in early 2020 after partnering with the organisation as Consulting CRO during a phase of tremendous growth. Eric is also the Founder & CEO of WON WORLDWIDE, a global sports media and entertainment revenue venture firm that specialises in revenue creation and strategies to drive value between marketers, sports leagues, teams, media owners, digital content/social distribution and via athletes/influences.
Prior to founding WON, Eric spent 18+ years at ESPN where in the role of EVP, Global Advertising Revenue and Sales Operations, he directly led a 400 person team dedicated to growing a nearly $4 billion advertising business for all ESPN media platforms globally, including television, OTT/streaming, digital, mobile, app, programmatic/automation, radio, audio, magazine, regional syndication, local, sponsorship activation and events.
Ryan Ruden
SVP, Experiential Marketing and Business Development
Columbia Records
Ryan Ruden
SVP, Experiential Marketing and Business Development
Columbia Records
Ryan Ruden is SVP, Experiential Marketing and business development for Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.
Ryan pursues strategic marketing and business partnerships, with a focus on driving revenue and innovation in artist development. With an interest in identifying emerging tech trends and burgeoning online communities he’s found a niche incubating music partnerships for Columbia in the categories of gaming, kids entertainment, and touring.
Focused on trend forecasting he also incubated a women’s gaming label, “Lost Rings” focused on releasing music by and for the gaming community. In 2019 he was tapped by Twitchcon to book all talent for the popular conference.
In addition he handle all tour marketing for frontline artists. Ryan has produced events for artists such as Beyonce and AC/DC and started the ticket bundle initiative within the label which led to multiple #1 albums for artists like The Chainsmokers and Harry Styles. He was included on Billboard’s 40 Under 40 Power Players List. He is also a frequent speaker on the intersection of music and ESports, tour marketing, and innovation.
Prior to Columbia, he worked at Interscope Records and before his major label experience, Ryan worked at Shady Records/Goliath Artists Management with Eminem.
Mike Sheetal
Founder / CEO
PlayBrain Inc
Mike Sheetal
Founder / CEO
PlayBrain Inc
PlayBrain founder, Mike Sheetal, brings more than 20 years experience in marketing and games. After starting his career in the games industry in Sydney, Australia, he moved to Japan in 2002, and has since founded and ran a creative agency for 10 years, before establishing PlayBrain.
PlayBrain is now a leader in Esports in the Japanese market, partnering with Riot Games to run the League of Legends Japan League, and working with Activision Blizzard, Supercell, CD Projekt Red, PUBG, and more. PlayBrain also develops also develops community websites, broadcast technologies and even a clothing brand to support the emerging Japanese esports industry.
Irene Scholl-Tatevosyan
Attorney
Nixon Peabody LLP
Irene Scholl-Tatevosyan
Attorney
Nixon Peabody LLP
Irene is co-leader of Nixon Peabody’s esports industry group. Irene’s passion for esports and gaming has made her an active member and thought leader in the esports and gaming community, presenting at numerous conferences nationwide in addition to penning articles. Irene founded the Los Angeles based “Women in Gaming” think-tank, creating a much needed leadership and networking platform for women in the esports and gaming industries.
At Nixon Peabody LLP, Irene is a practicing labor and employment attorney representing employers in all aspects of labor and employment matters, including discrimination, wrongful termination, wage and hour issues and labor disputes. She advises and represents clients in esports. Irene also litigates complex commercial disputes involving contracts, breach of fiduciary duty, copyrights and trademarks.
Paige Funk
Marketing Director
Nerd Street Gamers
Paige Funk
Marketing Director
Nerd Street Gamers
Paige Funk is the Director of Marketing for Nerd Street Gamers, the national esports infrastructure company dedicated to powering competitive opportunities for gamers. Paige has over 7 years of marketing and business development experience in traditional sports, esports and live entertainment technology. Prior to joining Nerd Street Gamers, Paige worked for a subsidiary of MLB Advanced Media, managing their marketing department and specializing in branding initiatives, digital presence, analytics, and product marketing. In her current role, Paige is responsible for developing and overseeing marketing, content, and communication efforts for Nerd Street Gamers and Localhost.
Paige holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing degree from San Diego State University, and was a member of their Division I rowing program. She is proud to be a part of the Nerd Street Gamers team, and embraces the mission of making esports more accessible for everyone.
James Dean
CEO
ESL Gaming UK Ltd
James Dean
CEO
ESL Gaming UK Ltd
James Dean is the founder and CEO of the ESL UK subsidiary, building the ESL brand and community on a regional level. James began his career in IT writing for UK’s largest computer magazine while studying for a Degree in Computer Science at Birmingham University. After graduating James managed the PC division of a well-known computer retailer in the UK and in 2004 launched a gaming brand of PCs increasing average margins from 6% to 20%.
In 2006, James founded a sales, marketing and PR company specialising in services for the IT and gaming industry, representing brands without existing operations in the UK. Within 3 years, the agency was generating over £5m annual revenues for various niche gaming brands including SteelSeries, the well-known esports peripheral brand.
This shaped the foundation of the ESL UK franchise after introduction to ESL Germany in 2012 which was eventually purchased by ESL’s global group in 2016. ESL is the world’s largest esports company with 15 offices spanning the globe. The UK office has maintained 50%+ year-on-year growth since its foundation. It operates the UK’s longest running national esports tournament, the ESL Premiership currently spanning 4 gaming titles. To this date, ESL still holds records for the largest ever online audience for a UK esports tournament.
James Fraser-Murison
Queen Mary’s College
Director of Learning / Esports Teacher
James Fraser-Murison
Queen Mary’s College
Director of Learning / Esports Teacher
Experienced teacher with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. Skilled in team leadership and man- management, coaching, organisational development and strategy.
Strong educational professional who believes in growth mindset approaches and hard work. Proud to have helped create the first ever BTEC in esports.
Julian Tan
Head of Digital Business Initiatives & Esports
Formula 1
Julian Tan
Head of Digital Business Initiatives & Esports
Formula 1
Dr. Julian Tan, from Malaysia joined Formula 1® in 2017. He is responsible for leading Formula 1's digital strategy, transformation & growth including F1's global esports business, redefining how fans engage with the sport through digital and esports. Prior to this, Julian was a Senior Consultant at global management consulting firm, The Boston Consulting Group. Here he helped some of the world's largest and most important organizations spearhead their commercial strategies and digital transformations. Julian holds first class bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Oxford and a PhD in the micromechanics of carbon fibre laminates from the University of Cambridge.
James Gallagher-Powell
Corporate Strategy Director and Esports Lead
CSM Sport & Entertainment
James Gallagher-Powell
Corporate Strategy Director and Esports Lead
CSM Sport & Entertainment
James is the Corporate Strategy Director and leads on esports at CSM Sport & Entertainment, a global integrated marketing and brand experience agency. CSM have a team of 1,000+ people in 25+ global locations working across the sport and entertainment spectrum.
Prior to CSM, James was Vice President at a global esports team and tournament operator. James started his career at PwC where he advised companies on strategy and M&A with a focus on the technology and media sectors.
Brett Abarbanel
Director of Research
UNLV International Gaming Institute
Brett Abarbanel
Director of Research
UNLV International Gaming Institute
Dr. Brett Abarbanel is Director of Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, International Gaming Institute, with a joint affiliate appointment at the University of Sydney, Australia. Dr. Abarbanel's
research covers video games, esports and gambling, gambling policy, operations and technology use, and responsible gambling and community relations. Dr. Abarbanel is the executive editor of the UNLV
Gaming Research & Review Journal, and recently completed a term on the International Advisory Panel for Singapore’s National Council on Problem Gambling. She is a founding director of the Nevada
Esports Alliance, which promotes the development of best practices at the intersection of the esports and regulated gambling industries.
Patrick"Chief Pat" Carney
CEO
Tribe Gaming Inc.
Patrick"Chief Pat" Carney
CEO
Tribe Gaming Inc.
Patrick “Chief Pat” Carney is the founder and CEO of Tribe Gaming, the leading mobile gaming esports organization. Tribe Gaming fields top competitive mobile esports teams and represents a number of the largest mobile gaming content creators. Under Pat’s leadership, Tribe Gaming has risen to become the most-followed mobile gaming esports organization, and the organization has secured a number of partnerships with major brands – including the likes of OnePlus, Discord, and Secretlab.
Pat was the first mobile gaming content creator to rise to fame on YouTube in 2012, having started his career by posting detailed strategy videos around Clash of Clans. With an audience of over 3M total followers on social media, and has received over 700M video views on his YouTube channel to date, Pat is widely regarded as one of the leading figures in mobile gaming and mobile esports.
Recently, Tribe Gaming raised over $1M USD is a seed investment round which was led by Boston Celtics player Gordon Hayward, Super Evil Megacorp CEO Kristian Segerstrale, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) performer Claudio “Cesaro” Castagnoli, and angel investor Victor Krahn.
Dr Bobbie Fletcher
Head of Deartment for Games and Visual Effects
Staffordshire University London
Dr Bobbie Fletcher
Head of Deartment for Games and Visual Effects
Staffordshire University London
Dr Bobbie Fletcher, Associate Professor of Games Education and Head of Department for Games and Visual Effects at Staffordshire University started the Games courses there in 2004 with a cohort of 55 students. Over the following 16 years this has grown to a total of 1600 students studying a range of Games Design courses, with award winning links to industry. In the 2018 Dr Fletcher has teamed up with colleagues from the Business School at the University to create the first esports degree in the UK, working closely with an industry advisory panel to insure the best education for students as the future esports workforce in the UK and beyond.
Rachel Gowers
Director
Staffordshire University London
Rachel Gowers
Director
Staffordshire University London
Rachel has worked in the education sector for 25 years and held roles as Associate Dean for Staffordshire Business School, Marketing Manager at UCAS and Head of Student Recruitment for Birmingham Met. She has worked internationally in Vietnam, China and Norway and co-developed the worlds first Esports Degree and Masters. A youth marketer at heart, Rachel is always looking for what’s next and has contributed to many successful funding bids, papers and award-winning campaigns throughout her career. She has just been awarded an East London Innovator Prize for her work developing the campus for Staffordshire University London.
She is passionate about developing confidence, communication skills and agility in tomorrow’s graduates.
Blaine Graboyes
CEO
GameCo
Blaine Graboyes
CEO
GameCo
Blaine is Co-Founder and CEO of GameCo, inventor of the Video Game Gambling Machine (VMG™), which combines the fun and interactivity of video games with the thrill and anticipation of gambling. Blaine also co-founded The Gamer Agency, the premiere independent esports production company, which was acquired in 2017. Graboyes is an award-winning Executive Producer and Game Designer with over twenty years’ experience developing digital entertainment. He has produced over 4,000 projects for world-renowned entertainment, business, and fine arts clients such as Blizzard Entertainment, Ubisoft, DreamWorks, Mattel, Sony, Disney, Nickelodeon, DIRECTV, Warner Bros., and The Guggenheim and Whitney Museums. His work has been recognized with numerous awards including the 16th Annual GGB Gaming & Technology Awards Silver Medal, an RIAA Platinum album, and IGN Editor’s Choice Award. Blaine is an active member of the Producers Guild Of America (PGA) formerly serving on multiple boards and co-chair of the 2014 and 2015 Produced By: New York conferences.
Chris Kissack
Esports Advisor
Digital IOM
Chris Kissack
Esports Advisor
Digital IOM
Esports advisor and corporate solutions specialist, Chris is well known within the esports ecosystem for his passion and enthusiasm for supporting grassroots initiatives, future talent and championing authentic growth of the industry. Chris is an advisor to the Isle of Man Government's esports initiatives, raising the Islands profile as an authentic place to do business in esports
Ben Rossiter-Turner
Head of Esports
Motorsport Games
Ben Rossiter-Turner
Head of Esports
Motorsport Games
Ben's esports journey started when he opened a racing simulator centre in the UK designed for leisure and entertainment. As the growth of competitive virtual motorsport became apparent he started working with some of the biggest automotive brands on creating and delivering engaging competitions. At Motorsport Games, the esports team is now the tournament operator or joint rights holders for events with Formula E, Le Mans, World Rallycross Championship and NASCAR.
Nazar Syrotiuk
Emerging Tech Manager, Innovation & Service Models
Nestle
Nazar Syrotiuk
Emerging Tech Manager, Innovation & Service Models
Nestle
Helping Business anticipate & prepare for the future...
Chester King
Co-owner
London Royal Ravens
Chester King
Co-owner
London Royal Ravens
Chester King has had a 27 year career in marketing, sport and since 2015, esports. He has worked at Wembley, Lord’s and has co-owned Stoke Park since 1993. In 2016 Chester founded the British Esports Association, the national body for esports in the UK and is their CEO. He is also a member of the All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon).
In 2019 Chester created the London Royal Ravens, the UK’s Call of Duty League franchise, with ReKTGlobal (owners of ROGUE) and is a co-owner.
Chester was appointed a member of the International Olympic Committee’s ‘Esports and Gaming Liaison Group’ in April 2019. And was appointed a member of the board (volunteer) of the Global Esports Federation in December 2019, of which he is the Chair of the Education, Culture and Wellness Commission and sits on the Membership and Technical Commissions with TenCent.
www.royalravens.gg
www.britishesports.org
www.globalesports.org
Jakob Lund Kristensen
Founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Astralis A/S
Jakob Lund Kristensen
Founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Astralis A/S
Jakob has almost 20 years of experience in the esport space spanning various roles. As the Founder and commercial lead for Astralis, he has helped build a Counter-Strike based dynasty with such strong commercial partners as Microsoft, Hummel, Audi, Bang & Olufsen and Logitech.
Georg Fischer
Marketing Manager KitKat - Europe, Middle East, North Africa
Nestlé
Georg Fischer
Marketing Manager KitKat - Europe, Middle East, North Africa
Nestlé
"Business Athlete" with competitive spirit but collaborative approach in my job where I like to challenge the status-quo.
~10 years experience in FMCG across major geographies and brands; mainly in Marketing & Sales but also several years in in-house consulting and innovation management.
Passionate about gaming & esports as a way to have a break, ideally with KitKat!
Neil Duffy
Chief Commercial Officer
Collegiate StarLeague
Neil Duffy
Chief Commercial Officer
Collegiate StarLeague
Neil Duffy is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at WorldGaming and the Collegiate StarLeague (CSL). WorldGaming was acquired by Cineplex Entertainment (2015), prior to that Neil led the acquisition of CSL and has since acquired The Melee Games and Smash 4 Collegiate (2017). Over the past four years, Neil and his team have grown CSL to become the world's largest collegiate esports league, tournament and event operator with participation by over 1800 campuses, 70,000+ student-gamers playing across 15 different games and hosting 60+ events annually. Neil has been a leading sales and partnership maker in esports having worked with brands like TikTok, EA Sports, 2K, Riot Games, Bethesda, Capcom & Twitch.
Victoria Horsley
President
Unified Collegiate Esports Association
Victoria Horsley
President
Unified Collegiate Esports Association
Victoria graduated from Missouri State University with a degree in Entertainment Management. While working with the NFL and NCAA doing events for the Super Bowl and Men's Final Four, she also began pursuing esports. Victoria has ten years in traditional athletics, and now nearly seven years in esports. For the past three years she has been focusing more on the collegiate side. Her current roles are the Chief Revenue Officer for the Unified Esports Association, formerly known as Midwest Esports, and the President of the Unified Collegiate Esports Association.
Cameron Reed
Esports Business Development Manager
Ross Video
Cameron Reed
Esports Business Development Manager
Ross Video
Cameron Reed has been directing and producing live, multi-camera esports productions since 2014. His work has aired on ESPN2, the NFL Network, Disney XD, Twitch, YouTube and Hulu. His credits include the Madden NFL Championship Series, Intel Extreme Masters and FIFA Interactive World Cup among many others. He recently joined the Ross Sports & Live Events team as the Esports Business Development Manager.
Anders Blume
Creative Director
Skybox
Anders Blume
Creative Director
Skybox
Anders has been working as a professional in esports broadcasting since 2013, with companies like: ESL, Dreamhack, MLG, Turner Broadcasting, Blast and many more. Co-founded skybox.gg providing match spectating and analysis solutions for tournaments, broadcasters and players. Passion for esports, tech, gaming and casting.
Archie Stonehill
Investor
Makers Fund
Archie Stonehill
Investor
Makers Fund
Today, I work as an investor for Makers Fund, searching for and supporting founders in the interactive entertainment industry. Born and raised in London, I spent the start of my career split in the USA but now cover the EMEA region for Makers. As a truly passionate gamer with a diverse set of gaming interests, I enjoy working closely with founders on thinking through game design, product and go-to-market strategies. Before joining Makers, I worked at McKinsey's Private Equity Practice, advising investors on the technology and gaming sectors and helping them research potential investments in gaming companies.
Carl Kuhn
Account Director / esports
Jung von Matt / SPORTS GmbH
Carl Kuhn
Account Director / esports
Jung von Matt / SPORTS GmbH
Carl Kuhn started out as an intern with JvM and went through all the classical stages of client services, working for a variety of large agency clients. In 2016, he made the switch to Jung von Matt / SPORTS to help build the newly minted esports branch, which he now runs with his team as Account Director / esports. In this role, he advises brands like Vodafone, Pringles, Mercedes-Benz, BMW Snipes and McDonald’s along with several esports organisations. He also works as a mentor for academic works in the field of esports.
Mitch Reames
Journalist
Adweek and ESI
Mitch Reames
Journalist
Adweek and ESI
Mitch is a writer and podcast host who covers business and marketing in esports. Based in Las Vegas, the ongoing acceptance of esports by the Nevada Gaming Control Board is a topic that hits close to home.
Adam Fitch
Business Content Lead
Dexerto
Adam Fitch
Business Content Lead
Dexerto
Adam Fitch speaks to, and writes about, leaders and creators across competitive gaming and internet culture.
Chi Bhatia
Senior Designer
HKS Sports & Entertainment
Chi Bhatia
Senior Designer
HKS Sports & Entertainment
Chi Bhatia is a Senior Designer at HKS London - a global design & strategy consultancy focused on Sports & Entertainment. With a background in both design and business, Chi creates sports & entertainment venues and leads the growth of HKS’ immersive venue vertical, exploring the convergence of digital content with physical environments. His experiences living and working in Asia, the US and Europe have given him an understanding of different cultures that allows him to design for diverse markets. Chi has been involved with projects ranging from: SoFi Stadium (70,000 seat stadium & 6,000 seat performance venue) home to the LA Rams & Chargers in Los Angeles to V.HIVE, Europe’s largest esport concept store for Team Vitality in Paris.
Chi also aids in origination, analysis, and deal flow for LOGE Capital Partners (an HKS venture arm) focused on sports, esports, technology and real estate ideation.
Marek Suchar
Head of Partnerships
Oddin
Marek Suchar
Head of Partnerships
Oddin
Marek Suchar, Head of Partnerships at Oddin.gg started his career in financial services where he held senior and managerial roles in various positions including business development and sales. His passion for esports brought him to the industry, specifically to the betting vertical. Leveraging the newest technologies at Oddin, Marek aims to significantly improve the engagement within esports betting and build partnerships that will shape the future of esports and esports betting.
Taylor Heitzig-Rhodes
Director of Talent Management
Evil Geniuses
Taylor Heitzig-Rhodes
Director of Talent Management
Evil Geniuses
Taylor has been involved in gaming and esports since 2016. She currently works as agent at Evolved Talent Agency, representing top professional players and streamers. She brings intricate knowledge of esports ecosystems of all the most popular games, such as League of Legends, Fortnite, VALORANT, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Rocket League, Call of Duty, and DOTA. She is working on mastering Chinese, TFT, and gardening.
Tricia Sugita
CEO
FlyQuest
Tricia Sugita
CEO
FlyQuest
Tricia Sugita is the CEO of FlyQuest. She started her career in esports competing in and streaming StarCraft II, then interviewing and hosting major esports events as an interviewer and host for major events, then became the Global Director of Esports at Azubu.tv, where she increased web traffic to over 12 million unique monthly visitors. She then joined Immortals and LA Valiant as the Head of Partnerships, securing major partnerships from AEG Worldwide and Omen by HP.
At FlyQuest, she’s using her decade of industry experience to build out a new kind of esports organization that reflects her core values of kindness, grace, and strength.
Nikita Buffee
Head of Business Development & Partnerships
Allied Esports
Nikita Buffee
Head of Business Development & Partnerships
Allied Esports
Allied Esports is a premier esports entertainment company with a global network of dedicated esports properties and content production facilities. Nikita has been a leading effort through the launch of the flagship venue in Las Vegas, the HyperX Esports Arena, the listing on NASDAQ, and the global expansion of the Allied Esports Network. His endemic esports and gaming knowledge has helped build long-lasting partnerships and is now working to help find new opportunities during these challenging times.
Phill Adams
CEO
RPGG Media
Phill Adams
CEO
RPGG Media
Phill has been selling in racing rights and tote betting since 2003. An ex CEO and tote evangelist how has spoken at numerous international betting and racing conferences on how to internationalise racing rights and the strengths of tote betting.
Trev Keane
Managing Director
Epic Global Agency
Trev Keane
Managing Director
Epic Global Agency
Trev is the co-founder of Epic Global Agency, a dedicated esports and gaming agency for rights holders, athletes and top tier esports teams. Epic Global Agency works with the likes of Jesse Lingard esports, Norwich FC, Tundra esports, Munster Rugby, Christian Fuchs and Beastcoast. He leads up their esports strategy division.
Martin Wyatt
Global Head of Partnerships
Gfinity Esports
Martin Wyatt
Global Head of Partnerships
Gfinity Esports
Martin is the Global head of partnerships at Gfinity where his role is to acquire, retain and strategically grow their various partnerships within the industry. Martin works first hand with AAA publishers and sports rights holders to understand, define and implement their strategic esports plans to ensure that they and their communities benefit from Gfinity’s expertise. Gfinity is a world leading esports solution provider.
Chirs Buckner
Co-Founder and CEO
Mainline
Chirs Buckner
Co-Founder and CEO
Mainline
Chris Buckner is the co-founder and CEO Mainline.GG - an esports tournament software and event management company that focuses primarily on the collegiate market. Mainline currently partners directly with universities to help them manage, monetize, and market their esports initiatives in an effort to grow their esports programs. Mainline also assisted ESPN with its Collegiate Esports Championship. In addition, Chris is the co-host of an all-new esports television show, The META, that airs Twitch.
Nicolas Estrup
Director of Product & Experience
BLAST
Nicolas Estrup
Director of Product & Experience
BLAST
Nicolas has worked in esports since mid 2000’s and have spent nearly two decades working with esports content both for his own company and an online TV channel start-up as a self taught host and producing & shooting editor. Later focusing on commercial productions, corporate content, sports, esports and documentary work. At the end of 2016 he was headhunted as one of the first employees at RFRSH Entertainment (Which has now become BLAST) with a heavy content focus around the then owned teams such as Astralis. He later became Director of Product & Experience as he was part of leading the conceptualisation and creation of BLAST and its products; The global esport event circuit, BLAST Pro Series, today known as BLAST Premier and latest the creation of BLAST Bounty Hunt in DotA2. Today he oversees all of BLAST’s output with a holistic, systematic and revenue driving approach to create emotion triggering do-not-miss experiences.
Stefy Bau
Founder & Director
Init Esports
Stefy Bau
Founder & Director
Init Esports
Stefy Bau is a former 3-time Women's World Motocross Champion. She has 20+ years of experience in the motorcycle and two-wheel electric transportation industry including serving as general manager of the FIM Women's World Motocross Championship, President and Founder of a Motorsports Management agency, and CEO of Fantic North America. In September 2019, Stefy co-founded Init Esports with 2 other women from the motorsports industry. Init Esports focuses on SIM-Racing and the development of women in gaming. Init Esports is the official promoter of the AMA (American Motorcyclist Association) esports tournaments and preferred channel on Twitch for two-wheel racing streaming. Stefy also serves on the Advisory board of Wist (Women In Sports Tech) and continues to mentor women in sports and gaming to help grow the community.
Josh Williams
Founder & Managing Director
The NUEL
Josh Williams
Founder & Managing Director
The NUEL
Josh founded the UK's university esports league, NUEL, back in 2010 which has grown to become one of the largest student esports communities in Europe. During that time Josh has co-founded the University Esports Masters, the pan-European university championship,
joined the advisory board at the British Esports Association and recently started work with GGTech on growing the University Esports program globally working with brands like Amazon and Riot
Games to expand esports opportunities to students worldwide.
Caz Lacey
Executive Search, Global Head of Esports and Video Games
Creative Artists Agency
Caz Lacey
Executive Search, Global Head of Esports and Video Games
Creative Artists Agency
Based in London, managing global mandates, Caz heads up CAA’s global gaming efforts. She has extensive experience working on senior executive and non-executive director positions for international gaming businesses. Her focus is on developing networks specifically within the esports and video gaming industries.
Caz formerly led the video gaming practice at Odgers Berndtson’s for five years, working with major games publishers, developers, technology providers as well as esports tournament organisers and teams. Some of her clients included: Sony PlayStation, Electronic Arts DICE, ESL and Bethesda Europe. Prior to this she worked as a consultant for a boutique executive search firm in London specialising in entertainment and leisure.
Allan Hvid
Head of Esports and Football
TV 2 SPORT
Allan Hvid
Head of Esports and Football
TV 2 SPORT
Journalist and head of Esport and Football at TV 2 Denmark.
Ryan Scollan
CEO
G-Science
Ryan Scollan
CEO
G-Science
Ryan is a sports scientist, esports performance coach and co-founder/CEO of esports performance coaching and technology company, Gscience. He graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Sport and Exercise Science in 2018. Ryan has previously worked at BLK BOX, adidas, and was part of the Propel Ignite Technology Accelerator 2019 cohort. He is passionate about improving the health, wellbeing and performance of gamers.
Taylor Johnson MS
Chief Performance Engineer
Statespace Labs
Taylor Johnson MS
Chief Performance Engineer
Statespace Labs
Taylor is the Chief Performance Engineer at Statespace Labs and oversees initiatives in esports performance training and education. Statespace is a neuroscience company and the makers of Aim Lab. With nearly two million players, Aim Lab is the ultimate FPS training solution that blends performance tracking analytics with artificial intelligence and machine learning to help players of all levels enhance their skills and improve over time. Prior to Statespace, Johnson built comprehensive programs for elite training, research, and education for professional esports organizations such as OpTic Gaming and the Houston Outlaws, along with 14 professional teams, and numerous developmental academies. He has both a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science and Rehabilitation and a Bachelor’s in Exercise Biology as well as certifications in strength and conditioning training, corrective exercise, nutrition, and sports performance
Pavol Krasnovský
CEO
RTSmunity a.s.
Pavol Krasnovský
CEO
RTSmunity a.s.
Pavol Krasnovsky graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, in Prague, in the field of Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. He also graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, in Finance. He worked as a researcher in statistics at the University of Warwick, UK. He worked as a mathematical analyst for various algorithmic trading companies, on interest rates. Together with his brother, they developed mathematical solution for quantifying metagame for MOBA esports games. On the basis of their experience, they founded RTSmunity, which has since emerged as the top esports live-odds provider and market maker for esports on the betting exchanges. He has worked as the CEO at RTSmunity since 2015.
Debs Scott-Bowden
Account Director
CSM Sport and Entertainment
Debs Scott-Bowden
Account Director
CSM Sport and Entertainment
Debs is an Account Director and co-leads on esports at CSM Sport & Entertainment.
Michael Kogan
MANAGING DIRECTOR, HEAD OF GAMING & LEISURE
CANACCORD GENUITY
Michael Kogan
MANAGING DIRECTOR, HEAD OF GAMING & LEISURE
CANACCORD GENUITY
Michael has extensive investment banking experience in corporate finance, M&A advisory, accounting and taxation across multiple industries. Since joining us in 2007, he has worked on numerous advisory assignments and successful financings representing total value in excess of C$15 billion. Michael is a CFA and CPA charterholder and has a Master’s in Management and Professional Accounting from the University of Toronto. In esports specifcally, Michael has represented Faze Clan, Luminosity, Enthusiast Gaming and Virgin Gaming in transactions consisting of equity finance, debt financine and M&A.
Jonas Gundersen
COO
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Jonas Gundersen
COO
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Professional esports athlete turned pro poker player, then recording artist, turned startup founder followed by 3x startup exec, now building modern esport teams and brands, as COO of iconic @Ninjas in Pyjamas.
Rob Black
CEO
Promod Esports
Rob Black
CEO
Promod Esports
Rob is the founder and CEO of Promod Esports a turnkey esports solutions agency that aims to create the best connections between IP owners and their customers. Rob has lived & breathed esports since 2003, originally as a player of CoD on PC and then moving into tournament organisation & team management with CoD4’s release in 2007. Rob has worked for a multitude of high profile esports stakeholders over the years including Team Dignitas & ESL.
Ivan Felletti
COO
Gaming Malta
Ivan Felletti
COO
Gaming Malta
Ivan Filletti is the COO of the GamingMalta Foundation a non-profit foundation set up by the government of Malta and the Malta Gaming authority to promoting Malta as the Home of Gaming Excellence. GamingMalta
spearheads efforts to sustainably grow Malta’s video game and esports sectors.
Lagen Nash
SVP of Partnerships
Misfits Gaming
Lagen Nash
SVP of Partnerships
Misfits Gaming
Lagen Nash served as Vice President of Global Solutions for the FOX Networks Group. Functioning as an internal consultant, Lagen solved complex performance problems for clients and drove millions of dollars of incremental revenue leveraging entertainment and sports programming assets and equities across the FNG’s brands, including FOX Broadcasting (FOX), FOX Sports, FX, National Geographic, FOX, and FOX International Channels. She is a trusted advisor in highly competitive markets with a deep understanding of the global media landscape and how to use it to increase revenue. Part of the FOX organization for ten years, Lagen’s career with FOX was marked by rapid advancement. Joining Fox Sports Net in 2010, she became Client Services Coordinator for Fox Sports Home Team Sports a year later. From there she moved to FOX Sports College Properties, first as Director of Partner Services where she managed millions in the asset portfolio and then as Director of Business Operations, helping to grow revenue by 375%. Lagen earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of California, San Diego and her Master in Sport Management from the University of San Francisco.
Lauren Cochran
Senior Director, Interactive Marketing
Miami HEAT
Lauren Cochran
Senior Director, Interactive Marketing
Miami HEAT
Lauren Cochran joined the Miami HEAT in 2013. As the Senior Director of Interactive Marketing, Cochran oversees digital marketing and strategy for the Miami HEAT by leading a talented team that turn data into dollars. Cochran is responsible for Miami HEAT's digital properties including social media, paid media, email and marketing automation, web, app, e-commerce and esports. Under her leadership, the HEAT Social Media Department is a consistent leader in social media engagement and growth with over 23 million followers, has had record breaking sales on the HEAT online retail store and successfully launched a paid media strategy reaping big returns on ticket sales. Prior to joining the Miami HEAT, Cochran served as the Director of Digital Media for the Philadelphia Flyers for seven seasons overseeing their digital properties that included the website, email marketing, mobile marketing and social media.
Ryan DeVos
Director, Magic Gaming
Orlando Magic
Ryan DeVos
Director, Magic Gaming
Orlando Magic
Entering his fifth year with the Magic, Ryan DeVos oversees all aspects of the Magic's NBA 2K League team, Magic Gaming. DeVos’ primary responsibilities for the team include overall management of the day-to-day basketball and business operations. Prior to joining the Magic, DeVos spent two years at the NBA office in New York in the Global Marketing Partnerships group. He handled the marketing relationships for companies such as SAP, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. DeVos volunteers his time in the community with the Magic’s various community initiatives. He also supports the Charity: Water initiative, a nonprofit organization that provides drinking water to people in developing nations, benefiting more than 8.2 million people. DeVos graduated from Rollins College with a degree in international business. He lives in Winter Park, Fla.
Andre Allen Anjos
Artist
RAC
Simon Teunissen-Oligboh
Sportsbook Marketing Strategy Manager
Unibet
Simon Teunissen-Oligboh
Sportsbook Marketing Strategy Manager
Unibet
As part of the Sportsbook Marketing team at Unibet, Simon has been instrumental in recent years to define the Esports marketing strategy, supporting the partnership with Astralis, and ensuring the growth of the Esports product. His current aim is to establish Unibet as a household name in Esports betting.
Chris Marsh
Co-CEO
Dexerto
Chris Marsh
Co-CEO
Dexerto
Chris is the Co-CEO and a Founding Director at Dexerto, an award-winning media group, production house and solutions provider, with properties including Dexerto.com and a social media network that reaches over 300M gaming fans per month. Having helped to build an audience of 20 million monthly users, Chris has unique insight as to what excites the gaming audience.
Cody Luongo
Journalist
Esports Insider
Cody Luongo
Journalist
Esports Insider
Cody is an American journalist and communications professional mostly found covering the intersection of esports and gambling.
Tom Murray
Associate
Mishcon de Reya LLP
Tom Murray
Associate
Mishcon de Reya LLP
Tom is an Associate in the Sports Group and Esports Group and a member of the Commercial team at leading London law firm, Mishcon de Reya LLP.
He advises leading athletes, teams, clubs, organisations and governing bodies on a wide range of legal issues from sponsorship and image rights arrangements to disputes and regulatory matters.
Alongside his practice, Tom leads the Mishcon Sports Law Academy – an academic programme that gives students a unique opportunity to gain a practical insight into sports law. He also produces an online vlog entitled 'Laws of the Game' providing bitesize analysis of contemporary sports law issues. Tom was recognised in this year's Legal 500 Sport Rankings 2019 as a 'strong addition to the team at the junior associate end, bringing a particular focus on e-sports'.
Anton Gribovskiy
VP Sales & Marketing
WePlay! Esports
Anton Gribovskiy
VP Sales & Marketing
WePlay! Esports
Anton Gribovskiy has been working as the VP of Sales and Marketing at WePlay! Esports since February 2020.
His main tasks are:
Development and scaling of sales and marketing strategies
Expansion in new markets
Optimizing business processes
Anton has more than 15 years of experience in sales and marketing across IT hardware/software industries. Previously, he worked at SoftwareONE, Microsoft, Logitech, and Philips. Anton received a master's degree in finance at Kyiv National Economic University.
His motto: Changes and opportunities always come together.
Oleh Humeniuk
General Manager
WePlay! Esports
Oleh Humeniuk
General Manager
WePlay! Esports
Oleh Humeniuk has been the General Manager at WePlay! Esports since 2019.
His main tasks are the implementation of best practices achieving the company’s goals, monitoring the progress, making managerial decisions, and managing the team of line managers and department managers.
Oleh has more than 11 years of experience in IT infrastructure project management for government and business institutions and the formation of working teams. Previously, he worked as a senior project manager at Hyuna International. Oleh has a Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
His motto: Only go forward! Never look back!
Julien Dupont
Head of Partnerships
Team Vitality
Julien Dupont
Head of Partnerships
Team Vitality
Fully trilingual having lived 6 years in NYC and 1 year in Mexico. I was part of Havas Sports & Entertainment for 10 years from 2002 to 2012 having worked in strategic planning, account management, international network development and coordination. I was also focused on driving revenue for the Global Sports Forum Barcelona. I then joined the Elite Model Group as Global Head of Sales and Partnerships where I focused on brand activation projects around fashion events and major influencer deals. Following that I launched Hopscotch Sports, a sports marketing agency in Paris which is part of the Hopscotch Group. The aim was to provide strategic consulting for brands who wished to invest in sports at a local and global level. I joined Team Vitality as Head of Partnerships in 2019. I am in charge of coordinating a 6 person team that manage our major sponsors like Orange, Renault or adidas as well as drive revenue through brand activations leveraging our many assets (players, flagship, training facility) as well as coordinating the different agencies that our part of our commercial network.
Eric Gass
Director of Global Brand Partnerships
OnePlus
Torsten Haux
VP Global Media Rights
ESL
Torsten Haux
VP Global Media Rights
ESL
Torsten was appointed VP Global Media Rights in August 2016.
His new established role is to create and package ESL esports products for TV broadcasters, Multi Service Operators and Online platforms around the globe to bring esports to a new audience with an entertaining and educating content portfolio.
Before joining ESL, Torsten worked eight years at German Sports TV Channel Sport1, where he was leading the program department and the related content sales divsion as Program Director. In 2012 he started his own media consulting company and created TV and Branded Content formats for national and international clients. Recently he worked at Red Bull Media House in Salzburg, where he build up an editorial department to run multiple sports and entertainment live shows for their TV and Online Channels. He started his career as TV reporter at German News Magazine „FOCUSTV“ in 2000, where he learned the handcraft of Storytelling.
Michele Magro
Interim President
Malta Esports Association
Michele Magro
Interim President
Malta Esports Association
Michele is the Interim President of the newly set up Malta Esports Association. Michele is a lawyer by profession and has been an esports enthusiast all his life. Michele has been running a non-profit grassroots esports team in Malta since 2007.
Terence Ting
CEO & Founder
Team Flash
Terence Ting
CEO & Founder
Team Flash
A passionate gamer at heart since young, Terence Ting has worked in esports for the past decade since 2006 mainly in various roles at professional esport teams abroad and local.
In 2017, Terence would eventually go on to start his own esports organization in Team Flash and become one of the earliest team owners in the SEA region, establishing professional gaming teams in both Vietnam and Singapore.
In the last two years, Team Flash has become one of Asia’s most recognizable esports teams having won Vietnam’s first world championship for esports at the Arena of Valor World Cup in July 2019.
Crispin Tristam
VP Digital Lifestyle
Telkomsel/Dunia Games
Crispin Tristam
VP Digital Lifestyle
Telkomsel/Dunia Games
As Vice President Digital Lifestyle, Crispin works closely with Telkomsel’s leadership team to deliver the best digital entertainment to Indonesia. With transformational leadership experience in telecommunications, digital media and digital transformation, Crispin looks after Video, Music, Games and value-added services for Telkomsel’s 190 million customer base.
Michael Patent
Founder & President
Culture Group
Michael Patent
Founder & President
Culture Group
Michael Patent, Founder & President of Culture Group, is a leading authority in the pop-culture marketing conversation in Asia Pacific. Having been at the forefront of marketing and partnership innovation for nearly two decades, Michael has acquired an aptitude for leveraging the power of popular culture to create memorable brand experiences. Culture Group combines consumer insight, cultural authenticity and commercial expertise to create brand experiences rooted in music, sports, streetwear, K-pop, esports, and other fandoms through offices in Singapore (HQ), Manila, Jakarta and Shanghai.
Allan Phang
Regional Head of Marketing and PR
EVOS Esports
Allan Phang
Regional Head of Marketing and PR
EVOS Esports
Allan is the Regional Head of Marketing and PR for EVOS Esports. Before joining EVOS Esports, he was the Head of Esports at AirAsia and helmed multiple roles and esports projects.
He has been invited as a keynote speaker in TEDx Talks and international conferences in USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
EVOS is the leading esports organisation that connects esports players, influencers and fans regionally.
EVOS Esports raised a total of US$4.4M in Series A investment back in 2019 and manages 12 esports teams and 300 gaming talens across Southeast Asia.
Ronald Robinson Robins
Founder and CEO
Mineski
Ronald Robinson Robins
Founder and CEO
Mineski
From founding one of the region’s first truly professional esports teams to establishing Mineski as one of the world’s first global esports companies, Ronald Robinson Robins, or Rho as he is called by those close to him, has always been defined by his competitive drive and a strong desire to be the best.
It was in 2004 that Rho, while earning his Bachelor of Science in Management of Financial Institutions at the De La Salle University in the Philippines, banded with some of his closest friends to form Mineski-Dota, one of the first truly competitive esports gaming teams in the country. The challenges he encountered in this period of his life would inspire Rho to embark on the journey of paving the way for a sustainable esports industry, initially in the Philippines, and soon after, in all of Southeast Asia. Now, as the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mineski Global, Rho is at the very fore of the movement to strengthen and broaden the appeal of esports and create a community of athletes, gamers and fans that is truly global in reach and united in their love for the game. For his vision and pioneering efforts, he has been widely heralded as the “Father of Philippine Esports.”
Darren Cox
President and CEO
Torque Esports
Darren Cox
President and CEO
Torque Esports
Co-CEO of Engine Media Corp, Cox is a motor industry innovator with more than 20 years’ experience. His previous success with Nissan and Sony in delivering GT Academy paved the way for esports within the racing game genre. Cox and the team at IDEAS+CARS launched the innovative World’s Fastest Gamer program in 2017 which was aired on global networks including ESPN. The British-born Cox took a leadership role for Torque Esports as President and CEO in April, 2019 – overseeing Torque Brands including gaming tournament platform UMG Gaming; streaming data analytics experts Stream Hatchet; gaming studio Eden Games; simulator manufacturer Allinsports; esport competition and tournament provider IDEAS+CARS and Torque’s motorsport media platform which includes The-Race.com and WTF1. In May, 2020, Torque acquired Frankly Media and WinView Games and will become “Engine Media Inc.”.
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